A rural official in Peru is whipped in public as punishment for participating in a Keiko Fujimori campaign event

The Peruvian public worker was forced to lie face down already receive lashes at the hands of members of a peasant patrol in the town of Macariin the region of A lot. They accused him of having participated in an electoral campaign event for the presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori.

The official, identified as Freddy Condoriacts as subprefecta common figure in Peru whose function is to operate as a trusted political authority. It is dependent on Home Office and represents the President of the Republic in the area.

Peru is a country accustomed to institutional chaos and experiencing a deep political crisis. In the photographs that Fujimori took during her visit to Macari, she is seen accompanied by the official Condori.

This motivated the peasant patrols, civilians who perform surveillance tasks to maintain order in rural communities, to decide to execute him for failing to fulfill his duties.

The figure of the subprefect, despite being linked to the executive, must maintain a stance of neutrality against political power, regardless of the executive that governs.

In addition to maintaining a neutral institutional position in the country, among its functions it must also coordinate actions of the Executive at the local level.

The ronderos justified the punishment against Condori in that the subprefect violated the obligation not to take sides that the position of authority in the municipality requires of him.

For his part, the prefect of the Puno region, Adolfo Pizarroadmitted in statements made to media in the region that the subprefect of Macarí should not have intervened in that activity, so his case will be evaluated to be eventually sanctioned administratively.

In any case, he accused the peasant patrols of having exceeded his performance against Condori, regardless of whether he had violated political neutrality.

“Us We respect other institutions a lot and social organizations about their work. However, I understand that the rounds work under a law that gives them autonomy to support the authorities when dispensing justice,” Pizarro explained.

This case once again calls into question the delicate balance between the forms of traditional justice used in the country and the basic norms that must be respected in a rule of law.

hostile territory

This place located on the border with Bolivia It is one of the most hostile territories for the conservative forces of Peru.

In 2021, Fujimori focused his complaints on Puno without solid evidence of “fraud” in the last elections, where he lost against the leftist former president. Pedro Castillo (2021-2022) by just over 40 thousand votes.

The then party candidate Popular Forcedenounced massive fraud as there were polling stations supposedly made up of relatives as the three members had the last name Catacoraa very common surname in this area of ​​the Andean country.

The daughter of the deceased president of the Republic Alberto Fujimorihas been presented up to three times to preside over the country, losing every time in the second round. He has never acknowledged electoral defeat, however, and has always raised doubts about the legitimacy of the elections.