The Minister of Social Development and Social Inclusion, Dina Boluarte, has announced that she will not be part of the next ministerial cabinet shortly after President Pedro Castillo swore in Betssy Chávez as the country’s new Prime Minister, replacing Aníbal Torres.
«After a deep reflection I have no doubt that the current polarization harms everyone, especially the ordinary citizen who seeks to get out of the political and economic crisis,» the also Peruvian vice-president has specified in her official Twitter profile.
Boluarte has thus confirmed that she will leave the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion, a portfolio she held since July 29, 2021, although she will remain in her position as vice-president, as reported by the newspaper ‘La República’.
Boluarte is facing a complaint filed by the congresswoman of Avanza País, Norma Yarrow, who assures that the Peruvian vice-president would have violated articles 38 and 126 of the Constitution, thus committing crimes of omission, refusal or delay of functional acts, as well as prevarication during her time as head of the board of directors of the Club Departamental Apurímac.
The ‘number two’ of the Peruvian Government questions that the congresswoman «is judge and party of the constitutional accusation procedure» and requested the president of the Subcommittee of Constitutional Accusations (SAC) of the Congress of the country, Lady Camones, to remove the congresswoman.
The Peruvian president, Pedro Castillo, has to appoint in the next hours the rest of the ministerial Cabinet in what is already a new change of course in a particularly convulsive national politics, marked in the last months by the incessant motions of censure and voluntary departures of ministers.
The last episode of political instability in Peru took place on Thursday night when the former Prime Minister Torres resigned after the Congress refused to modify the law limiting referendum calls in the country.
