An MP photographed while a councilor was giving her a pedicure in her office in Peru's parliament will be investigated
Lucinda Vasquez. Photo source: El Comercio / Zuma Press / Profimedia
The President of the Congress of Peru, Fernando Rospigliosi, on Monday qualified the deputy's gesture as “reprehensible” and demanded that she be sanctioned, reports AFP.
Left-wing lawmaker Lucinda Vasquez was photographed sitting on a couch while one of her advisers massaged her and trimmed her toenails in her office in the Congress of Lima, a local television show revealed, Agerpres notes.
The photo was taken on November 6, 2024, but was only recently made public.
#LOULTIMO Congresswoman of Juntos Por el Perú, antes Perú Libre, Lucinda Vasquez, obliga a que su trabajador le corte las uñas de los PIES y le cocine dentro del mismo CONGRESO. pic.twitter.com/mTvI3cIxX9
— Roger García (@RogerAderly) October 27, 2025
Rospigliosi, a member of the right-wing Popular Force party, also appreciated that it was “a humiliation” for congressional employees to be asked to perform such tasks “that do not belong to their duties” and asked the congressional ethics commission to sanction Lucinda Vasquez.
“What happened is reprehensible, this should not happen again in Congress, the people who commit this type of acts should be sanctioned, I hope that the members of the ethics commission will take all the necessary measures,” Rospigliosi said in a press conference.
The president of the ethics commission, Elvis Vergara, declared in front of the press that on November 3, he will request the initiation of an ex officio investigation against the deputy.
