{"id":502821,"date":"2026-03-23T22:07:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T02:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/presidential-debate-in-peru-kicks-off-with-35-candidates-and-delay-of-favorite-rafael-lopez-aliaga\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T22:07:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T02:07:53","slug":"presidential-debate-in-peru-kicks-off-with-35-candidates-and-delay-of-favorite-rafael-lopez-aliaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/presidential-debate-in-peru-kicks-off-with-35-candidates-and-delay-of-favorite-rafael-lopez-aliaga\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential debate in Peru kicks off with 35 candidates and delay of favorite Rafael L\u00f3pez Aliaga"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Lima.-<\/strong>The debate of the Peruvian presidential elections brings together from this Monday the 35 presidential candidates in contention to discuss their proposals over fifteen hours that will be distributed in six days with the aim of accommodating all participants.\n\nIn three groups of between 11 and 12, the 35 candidates will parade across the debate stage on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week to discuss security and the fight against corruption, while the following week they will return on the same days to talk about employment, education, and innovation, in sessions of two and a half hours each.\n\nThe composition of the groups was decided by drawing lots, so that the candidates will coincide with different rivals in each of their appearances.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-el-candidato-presidencial-en-primer-lugar-llega-tarde\"><strong>The Presidential Candidate in First Place is Late<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nThe candidate for the Presidency of Peru, Rafael L\u00f3pez Aliaga, who appears in first place in voting intention in most polls published so far, arrived late this Monday to the electoral debate, which began more than ten minutes after the scheduled time due to this delay, still without him in his place.\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>We recommend reading:<a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/peru-emite-alerta-epidemiologica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peru issues epidemiological alert due to leptospirosis outbreak with more than 1,000 cases<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\nThe former mayor of Lima, now a presidential candidate for the ultraconservative Renovaci\u00f3n Popular party that he himself leads, left his home less than half an hour before the start of the debate, according to various local media that followed his journey to the Lima Convention Center.\n\nL\u00f3pez Aliaga&#8217;s delay led to the rest of the participants in the first of the six sessions of the electoral debate taking the family photo at the beginning of the event without the presence of the candidate, who appeared when the moderators were beginning to welcome the audience.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-el-debate-presidencial-en-peru-con-35-candidatos\"><strong>The Presidential Debate in Peru with 35 Candidates<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nThe crowd of supporters who arrived at the surroundings of the debate headquarters to support their candidates made L\u00f3pez Aliaga&#8217;s arrival even more complicated.\n\nThe Peruvian presidential debate will host the 35 candidates in the running and will last a total of fifteen hours, spread over six days, with sessions of two and a half hours each, where there will be groups of between eleven and twelve participants.\n\nIn the first session of this Monday, there are eleven candidates, following the death last week of Napoleon Becerra, from the Workers and Entrepreneurs Party (PTE), who lost his life in a work accident while traveling through the south of the Peruvian Andes to continue his electoral campaign.\n\nIn addition to L\u00f3pez Aliaga, it will also be the turn this Monday of the center-left candidate Alfonso L\u00f3pez Chau (Ahora Naci\u00f3n), who in the latest Datum poll appears in third place with 6.5%, as well as comedian Carlos \u00c1lvarez (Pa\u00eds Para Todos), who with a right-wing political proposal is fourth in the polls with 5%.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-los-participantes\"><strong>The Participants<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nCompleting the list of participants this Monday are former Minister of Justice Marisol P\u00e9rez Tello (Primero La Gente), university owners and businessman Jos\u00e9 Luna (Podemos Per\u00fa) and C\u00e9sar Acu\u00f1a (Alianza Para el Progreso).\n\nAlso part of the lineup for this debate evening are former congressmen Yonhy Lescano (Popular Cooperation) and Fernando Olivera (Hope Front), retired military personnel Wolfgang Grozo (Democratic Integrity) and Jos\u00e9 Williams (Avanza Pa\u00eds), and \u00c1lex Gonz\u00e1les (Green Democrat), former mayor of the Lima district of San Juan de Lurigancho, the municipality with the largest population in Peru.\n\nAlso\n\nThe candidates arrived at the Lima Convention Center, venue of the debate, surrounded by numerous groups of supporters dressed in flags and t-shirts with the color of their respective parties, as well as their identifying symbols.\n\n\u00c1lvarez even starred in a small artistic performance upon arrival, accompanied by people dressed as prisoners with different ills afflicting the country, while Williams&#8217; supporters provided dancing humanoid robots, which enlivened the expected arrival of the candidates.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lima.-The debate of the Peruvian presidential elections brings together from this Monday the 35 presidential candidates in contention to discuss their proposals over fifteen hours that will be distributed in six days with the aim of accommodating all participants. 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