Thread by @jomaburt

🔴#Peru A slow-motion coup is underway in Peru. 🧵

A member of JNE, the elections board, has resigned tho he legally cannot do so, preventing the JNE from having a quorum. This bad faith procedural maneuver is intended to prevent Pedro Castillo from being formally proclaimed the winner of the June 6 presidential elections .

If no president is proclaimed by July 28, the head of the congress will be sworn in as interim president on July 28, and presumably would convene new elections.

In this scenario, the person who would likely become interim president would be Jorge Montoya, a retired navy admiral who was elected to office with the far-right party of businessman and Opus Dei member Rafael Lopez Aliaga.

Congressman-elect jorge Montoya has openly called for the dissolution of the elections authorities, the nullification of the election results, and convening new elections

https://twitter.com/jomaburt/status/1404818739305103368?s=20

In 1999, Jorge Montoya, along with hundreds of other military officials, signed a "loyalty oath" to Keiko Fujimori's father, Alberto Fujimori, whose authoritarian government was plagued with corruption and human rights violations.

https://twitter.com/jomaburt/status/1404825890169688072?s=20

Two days ago, Montoya participated in a public manifestation with other retired military officials, peddling the baseless fraud narrative of Keiko Fujimori.

https://twitter.com/jomaburt/status/1407420796256067591?s=20

Keiko Fujimori lost the elections, by 44,000 votes, to leftist candidate Pedro Castillo. Her baseless claims of fraud seek to obstruct the conclusion of the electoral process and prevent Castillo from being proclaimed winner. wola.org/analysis/june-…

The calls for an elections audit, like similar calls by Trump in the 2020 elections, are not based on evidence of fraud; rather they're a ploy to sow doubt about the electoral process and prevent Pedro Castillo from taking his rightful place in the presidential palace. #Peru