“José C. Paz has a priest”: The slogan that gathered 40,000 signatures for a local electoral dream
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- A campaign slogan calling for José C. Paz to have a priest gathered 40,000 signatures.
- Residents once encouraged priest Gustavo Manrique to run for mayor against Mario Ishii, but a bishop stopped the bid.
- Manrique’s views focused on worsening poverty, drugs in neighborhoods and informal lenders during the economic crisis.
“José C. Paz has a priest” became the slogan of a neighborhood campaign that collected 40,000 signatures for a highly unusual electoral ambition: putting priest Gustavo Manrique forward against Mario Ishii in the mayoral race.
Manrique arrived in the municipality before the social upheaval of 1989. A decade later, local residents pushed him to become a mayoral candidate, but the bishop stopped the effort.
His view of José C. Paz centered on the deterioration of social conditions, from poverty to extreme deprivation. He also focused on drugs in the neighborhoods and on informal drug dealers acting as lenders during the economic crisis.
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Originally published by Clarín in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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