Betssy Chávez, under investigation by the prosecution, will replace Aníbal Torres, in what represents the umpteenth government crisis in 16 months of legislature
Peru’s President Pedro Castillo sworn in Betssy Chávez as the country’s new prime minister this Friday, replacing Aníbal Torres, who resigned after the breakdown of a confidence issue in the Andean parliament. Chávez, so far Minister of Culture, will therefore serve as the fifth head of the Peruvian government under the mandate of Castillo, who assumed the reins of head of state just over 16 months ago, in July 2021.
Castillo will have to designate the rest of the ministerial cabinet in the coming hours in what is already another change of course in a particularly convulsive national policy, marked in recent months by the relentless motions of censure and voluntary resignations of ministers. Even the president himself has the backing of the Peruvian judiciary and prosecution, the latter an organization that accuses him of leading a criminal organization for alleged corruption.
Peru’s latest episode of political instability came Thursday night when Torres tendered his resignation after Congress refused to change the law restricting the country’s holding of referendums.
“After this explicit refusal of confidence, with the expression of ‘complete rejection’, and after accepting the resignation of the ‘Prime Minister’, whom I thank for his concern and work for the country, I will renew the cabinet,” Castillo stressed. . in a televised speech. At just over nine months in office, Aníbal Torres is the Peruvian government’s longest-serving prime minister since Pedro Castillo was sworn in as president.
Torres agreed to the position with a promise that he would leave office if his proposal fell through. So it has been and Castillo now faces the renewal of his entire cabinet. It has a term of 30 days. In the event that the right-wing Congress refuses to trust the new government, Castillo has stated that he will feel free to dissolve the Cortes and call new elections at a time of great polarization. The president faces six investigations by the Public Prosecution Service for alleged corruption.
Source: La Verdad
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