LIMA — Few people take kindly to being compared to a pig but the portly, balding ex-mayor of Peru’s capital Lima, who resigned on Monday to run for president, has embraced his “Porky” epithet.

The 64-year-old ultra-conservative mayor announced his second bid for the top office days after Congress impeached then-president Dina Boluarte over a wave of extortion rackets that have rocked the country.

Rafael Lopez Aliaga, nicknamed Porky over his perceived resemblance to the Looney Tunes character Porky Pig, is the poll favorite to win the April 2026 elections.

But his jowly face is where the similarity with his shy cartoon alter ego ends.

The millionaire businessman, a member of the ultra-conservative Catholic movement Opus Dei who was elected mayor of Lima in 2022, is an admirer of US Pre

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