Salas Arenas indicated that the threat reached the JNE institutional network via a Twitter account

Jorge Salas Arenaspresident of the National Jury of Elections (JNE), denounced this Tuesday before the public prosecutor’s office having been threatened with death through a Twitter account called ‘Clandestine ultra-right’, from which he received “the image of a hand holding a ball”.

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In the letter sent to the prosecution, the head of the electoral body stressed that it is an act of “intimidation” which “puts his life and his integrity in serious danger”. “(The image contained the) following message: ‘Go away, Salas Arenas…go away, get corrupted, you have been warned,’ the letter to the prosecution continued.

The head of the electoral jury indicated in the letter that “this act of intimidation puts his life and integrity in serious danger” and, therefore, requested the “urgent attention” of the Secretary General of the National Prosecutor’s Office, Fiorella Roxanna Casique.

“We request that, immediately, you take the corresponding measures in the exercise of your constitutional functions,” he said in the document.

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Salas Arenas also recalled that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) granted in July 2021 precautionary protection measures in favor of him and his family, after considering that he was in a “serious and urgent situation of risk of irreparable harm to his rights in Peru. “.

Then the country had just celebrated the second round of a polarized presidential election in which Pedro Castillo had won by only 44,000 votes against Keiko Fujimoridaughter and political heiress of former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000).

The recent complaint before the public prosecutor’s office is part of the tense political and social context that Peru has been going through since last December, after the failure of Castillo’s self-coup and the start of the social epidemic which to date has claimed the lives of 76 people.

Pedro Castillo made a coup on December 7, 2022.
Pedro Castillo made a coup on December 7, 2022.

Last January, during an interview with succeeded, Arena Rooms He said there was a “political interest” in removing him from office. “That’s the feeling I have. Now, on the sly, he’s getting up and saying they don’t trust (the heads of the electoral organizations),” he said in reference to a legislative initiative to cut the mandate of the heads of electoral organizations.

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“I was recently ratified. There is no legal or material basis to request the advancement of the completion of the work of the JNE and, of course, of Mr. Piero Corvetto of the ONPE”, he nuanced.

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