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The interim president has appointed a cabinet of ministers with which she seeks to consolidate the truce requested from Congress
Dina Boluarte, the new president of Peru, has finally formed her provisional government. In a message addressed to society, she has named the former prosecutor and former dean of the Pedro Angulo Arana Bar Association as the new president of the Council of Ministers. angle replaces Betssy Chávezwho had submitted his resignation when Pedro Castillo tried to dissolve Congress and install a state of emergency, last Wednesday.
Upon taking office, Boluarte asked Parliament “a truce” that would allow him not only to organize an interim government but also to guarantee a minimum of institutional stability in a country that has suffered from this deficit, especially since 2018 with the successive dismissals of Pablo Kuczynski, Martín Vizcarra and, days ago, Castillo. “I am not going to ask that my government not be audited or that the decisions that will have to be taken not be scrutinized; what I am asking is a deadlinea valuable time to rescue our country from the corruption and the misrule“He said about the circumstances that led him to the Executive.
Angulo’s appointment sought, in this sense, not to generate cracks in the very precarious relationship that the provisional president has with the legislature. The other ministers were in turn appointed in the same spirit of “harmony” with the parliamentarians, who have in their hands the key to destabilize the Government. Boluarte incorporated Luis Alberto Otárola Peñaranda as defense minister. Alex Contreras He is the new Minister of Economy and Finance. Cecilia Gervasi has been appointed in Foreign. Jose Andres Tello Alfaro He is the brand new head of Justice. So far, none of the officials have provoked adverse comments.
The situation of Boluarte, the first female president in the history of that country, is fragile from the beginning. she lacks own party and social base. It must, in record time, create ties with society as a counterweight against a possible offensive from the right, which is the majority in Parliament. As part of their political survival strategy, rReceived the Archbishop of Lima, Carlos Castillo. The prelate “encouraged” her to defend the values announced at her inauguration. In Peru, he said, “the easiest option is chosen, which is how I get my cut and then I organize everything based on the cut that I want to get and I improvise everything and obviously a process of corruption of the institutions begins, because everything is ambition, my friends, my family and my region”.
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After the spasm of Wednesday, with Castillo detained and with no one to come to his aid, suspicion has not taken long to settle around the figure of the interim president. “It is not clear when Boluarte stopped thinking like Castillo“, assured Mario Ghibellini in his column in the Lima newspaper Trade. “Jumping off a ship in time can save someone from being swept up in her sinking, but it doesn’t erase her name from the crew list,” she said of the former vice president, whose relationship with Castillo had deteriorated before the riot of her
In this context, calls are constantly heard for early elections. Boluarte must complete Castillo’s term, which ends in 2026. But part of the opposition does not seem willing to wait that long. The elected mayor of Surco and a benchmark for the politic center, Carlos Brucerecalled in this sense that the interim president is “quite weak” and has “very little margin for error.” Therefore, the best “institutional output” It would be that he did not stay four years in the Pizarro Palace.