2024-05-09 14:30:37
A total of eight Peruvian political parties have proposed in their government programs to reform and eliminate ministerial portfolios, in view of the general elections scheduled for April 11.
These proposals, which are usually presented for electoral reasons every five years, are common in the politics of the Andean country and usually reappear every time a term ends. Now, with their sights set on the elections, the country’s main parties hope to benefit from the law that regulates, precisely, the “resizing and reorganization of the ministries” in Peru.
Thus, at least six political organizations have proposed creating at least one new ministry that is linked to Science, Youth or Public Works. This is the case of Alianza Para el Progreso, the Frente Amplio, the Nationalist Party, Peru Patria Segura, Podemos and Victoria Nacional, as reported by the RPP radio station.
In this sense, Podemos and Alianza Para el Progreso are the parties that propose the most ministerial changes, six and seven each, respectively. Besides, Both agree on ending the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations.
The party led by Daniel Urresti has thus proposed merging this portfolio with the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion, while César Acuña’s party proposes that said ministry be absorbed by it.
For their part, the political parties Perú Libre and Renovación Popular consider “assess” the elimination of some ministerial bodies that “they duplicate” functions.
“We will reduce the number of existing ministries, taking as precepts for said reduction inefficiency, the oversizing of the state bureaucracy and the large current expenses,” said Renovación Popular in its proposal.
Peru heads to elections in April that appear vital to achieving greater political stability in the country, which experienced a strong wave of protests in 2020 after the dismissal of former president Martín Vizcarra in the middle of the pandemic.