由好斗的保守派领导的秘鲁政党在利马市长竞选中以微弱优势领先。只有一个问题：法律禁止市长立即连任，这让选民不确定他是否能接受这份工作。
A Peruvian party led by a combative conservative holds a narrow lead in Lima’s mayoral race. There’s just one problem: the law bans immediate reelection for mayors, leaving voters unsure whether he can take the job.
周日在利马举行的选举中，右翼人民革命党赢得了近28%的选票，利马是秘鲁近三分之一人口的家园，已清点了近93%的选票。该党领导人、利马前市长拉斐尔·洛佩斯·阿利亚加曾作为副市长候选人竞选，但在市长候选人在竞选中退出后，最终位居榜首。
The right-wing Renovación Popular party won nearly 28% of the vote in Sunday’s election in Lima, home to nearly a third of Peru’s population, with almost 93% of ballots counted. Former Lima Mayor Rafael López Aliaga, the leader of the party, had run as a candidate for deputy mayor but ended up at the top of the ticket after its mayoral candidate dropped out during the race.
民意调查机构Datum的一项出口民意调查和快速统计均将洛佩斯·阿利亚加的政党置于第一位，但在统计上与排名第二的保守派阿万扎·帕斯党持平。
An exit poll and quick count by pollster Datum both put López Aliaga’s party in first place, but statistically tied with the second-place conservative Avanza País party.
洛佩斯·阿利亚加因其圆圆的脸和突出的红润脸颊而获得“Porky”的绰号，他的竞争对手指责他寻求“后门连任”，以绕过秘鲁禁止市长立即连任的禁令。他们还批评选举当局尚未就他是否可以上任或该职位是否会由第二副市长候选人决定。
Rivals of López Aliaga, who has embraced the nickname ‘Porky’ due to his round face and prominent rosy cheeks, accuse him of seeking a “backdoor reelection” to get around Peru’s ban on mayors being immediately reelected. They also criticize electoral authorities for not yet ruling on whether he could take office or whether the job would instead go to the ticket’s second deputy mayor candidate.
与此同时，洛佩斯·阿利亚加和他的支持者认为，他可能重返该市最高职位将通过继任而不是连任来实现。
López Aliaga and his supporters, meanwhile, argue that his potential return to the city’s top job would come through succession, not reelection.
“禁止竞选公职，也禁止担任公职，”洛佩斯·阿利亚加周日晚间在初步结果公布后告诉记者。“我不会竞选市长，这也不是我的意图，”他说，并警告说，如果选举当局禁止他就职，将违法。
“It’s prohibited to run for office, not to hold office,” López Aliaga told reporters Sunday night, after preliminary results were released. “I’m not running for mayor, and that wasn’t my intention either,” he said, warning that electoral authorities would run afoul of the law if they barred him from taking office.
他的情况并不独特。据当地媒体报道，在全国近1，900场市长竞选中，超过130名现任市长在周日的选举中作为副市长候选人参选。
His situation is not unique. More than 130 incumbent mayors ran as deputy mayor candidates in Sunday’s election, according to local media, out of nearly 1,900 races for mayor across the country.
Datum的出口民意调查显示，总统藤森圭子领导的人民力量党将表现疲软，市长没有获胜。
Datum’s exit poll projects President Keiko Fujimori’s Popular Force party is headed for a weak showing, with no mayoral wins.
洛佩斯·阿利亚加（López Aliaga）是一位富有的商人，经营豪华酒店和火车赚钱，他于2023年成为利马市长。但他在去年四月的大选中提前辞去了职务，竞选总统，当时他获得第三名，险些无缘决选。在那次选举中，他赢得了参议院席位，但选择不就职，理由是选举当局和国际观察员否认了涉嫌违规行为。
A wealthy businessman who made his money operating luxury hotels and trains, López Aliaga became Lima mayor in 2023. But he quit the job early to run for president in last April’s general election, where he finished third and narrowly missed the runoff. In that election, he won a Senate seat but chose not to take office, citing alleged irregularities that electoral authorities and international observers have denied.
他担任利马市长期间与布鲁克菲尔德资产管理公司就首都收费公路的运营发生了备受瞩目的纠纷。洛佩斯·阿利亚加辩称，这项特许权是其前所有者通过腐败获得的，不公平地伤害了穷人。
His tenure as Lima mayor was marked by a high-profile dispute with Brookfield Asset Management over the operation of a toll road in the capital. López Aliaga argued that the concession was obtained through corruption by its previous owner and has unfairly harmed the poor.
布鲁克菲尔德否认其所有权有任何不当行为，并指责洛佩斯·阿利亚加政府非法没收其秘鲁子公司鲁塔斯·德利马（Rutas de Lima）。该资产管理公司已将秘鲁提起仲裁，要求赔偿27亿美元。洛佩兹·阿利亚加拒绝额外支付2亿美元的仲裁罚款，并发誓要对该公司提出30亿美元的索赔。
Brookfield denies any wrongdoing under its ownership and has accused López Aliaga’s administration of illegally expropriating its Peruvian subsidiary, Rutas de Lima. The asset manager has taken Peru to arbitration claiming $2.7 billion in damages. Lopez Aliaga has declined to pay an additional $200 million in arbitration penalties and has vowed to file a $3 billion claim against the firm.
洛佩兹·阿利亚加是秘鲁政坛上一位两极分化的人物，风格傲慢、咄咄逼人。在竞选总统期间，他试图与美洲各地的类似领导人结盟，其中包括唐纳德·特朗普。他还明确表达了对萨尔瓦多纳伊布·布克莱反犯罪政策的钦佩。
Lopez Aliaga is a polarizing figure in Peruvian politics who wields a brash, aggressive style. While running for president, he sought to align himself with similar leaders across the Americas, including Donald Trump. He also made his admiration clear for the anti-crime policies of El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele.
除了解决厄尔尼诺现象的影响外，应对不断上升的犯罪率将成为秘鲁新当选当局面临的主要挑战之一。上个月，一名州长候选人被杀，周日北部小镇的一个投票站遭到爆炸袭击。
Along with addressing fallout from the weather phenomenon known as El Niño, tackling rising crime is set to be one of the major challenges for newly elected authorities in Peru. Last month, a candidate for governor was killed, and on Sunday an explosives attack hit a polling station in a small northern town.
新一批民选官员将于一月份就职，尽管围绕连任的模糊规则需要首先澄清。
The new crop of elected officials are set to take office in January, although the murky rules around reelection need to be cleared up first.
秘鲁国家选举程序办公室前主任费尔南多·图埃斯塔的一份声明称：“曾经明确的规则已不再如此。”他写道，政客和政党可以为所欲为，但机构必须在法治下设定限制。“这还没有发生，”他补充道。
“The rules that were once clear are no longer so,” according to a statement from Fernando Tuesta, former head of Peru’s National Office of Electoral Processes. Politicians and parties can do as they please, he wrote, but institutions must set limits under the rule of law. “That hasn’t happened,” he added.