Overview
- At a proclamation event in Cercado de Lima, the coalition of Voces del Pueblo and Nuevo Perú por el Buen Vivir formally presented Atencio, with left-wing figures Sigrid Bazán and Mocha García Naranjo in attendance.
- Atencio takes the slot after Guillermo Bermejo withdrew following a terrorism conviction, a change that reordered the coalition’s lineup.
- The alliance said it will run coordinated slates for Peru’s reinstated bicameral Congress while prioritizing decentralization, labor rights, and citizen participation.
- During a campaign stop in Juliaca, Atencio said he would create a truth commission with authority to compensate families of those killed in the 2023 protests and establish a body to pardon what he describes as political prisoners.
- He also pledged to seek repeal of measures that shield security forces during protest operations and to pursue an industrialization drive alongside a constitutional rewrite through a constituent assembly.