The mayor of Lima, the ultraconservative Rafael López Aliaga, whom everyone calls Porky in reference to the little pig in the series Looney Tunes, This Monday he made his resignation official to launch the race for the Presidency of Peru. The leader of the Popular Renewal formation, which last week led to the fall of Dina Boluarte due to the deep security crisis that is suffocating citizens, has already anticipated the axis that his presidential campaign will have with a view to the April elections. That is, zero tolerance against crime. López Aliaga has stated that, in this climate, “the easy thing is to run”, that is, to flee, but he has insisted that his mission is to “take on what is difficult.” “You have to leave your comfort zone and leave life, even if necessary,” he said in his farewell.
In just a few months, Porky has gone from supporting the former president without the slightest criticism to withdrawing his support in Congress. That movement was decisive for the vacancy or motion of censure to prosper and for Boluarte to be dismissed early Friday morning in a surprising and bizarre parliamentary session. Popular Renewal “Enough, there is nothing worse than what we are in. She is morally incapable,” snapped the still mayor of the capital of Peru.
A businessman in the tourism sector with interests in the railway network in southern Peru (which includes the concession that reaches Machu Picchu), Porky was recently questioned for very serious statements about veteran journalist Gustavo Gorriti and his investigative work. “We have to get rid of it once and for all,” he said. It was not the first time that this ultra leader intimidated someone. During the last presidential campaign, he threatened to kill Pedro Castillo when he was still a candidate.
López Aliaga assures that he respects the rules of the democratic game, but at the same time he has proven to be an intolerant bearer of fanaticism and intolerance. “The center of my statute and my ideology is Christ,” he stated on one occasion and later confessed that he repressed his sexual desires thinking about the Virgin Mary. “If I see a big woman I tell the Virgin Mary: ‘you are prettier than this girl’. I am so in love with the virgin,” he went on to say. Already as a candidate, he insulted an activist for euthanasia: “If you want to kill yourself, jump off a building.” And so, this “Peruvian Bolsonaro”, as some have also nicknamed him, will take his spirit to the presidential campaign in the April elections.
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