Peruvian President Dina Boluarte renewed her cabinet this Friday, swearing in three ministers, after a week with more than twenty deaths in anti-government demonstrations demanding the end of Boluarte’s mandate and early elections.
Boluarte has appointed Vicente Romero Fernández as Minister of the Interior, while Luis Alfonso Adrianzén Ojeda has taken over the Labor portfolio, and Nancy Rosalina Tolentino Gamarra will be Minister of Women and Vulnerable Populations.
Romero, who already held the position in Interior in December 2017, has served as director of the National Police between 2015 and 2017, as reported by the Peruvian Presidency.
Adrianzén, a lawyer by profession, has held the general secretariat of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and several ministries. For her part, Tolentino, an expert psychologist, has served as executive director of the National Integral Program for Family Welfare.
These new ministers replace Víctor Rojas in Interior, against whom an interpellation motion had been filed to respond on the actions of the Police in the protests; Eduardo García in Labor and Grecia Rojas Ortiz in Women, who have resigned due to the crisis situation in the country.
The former Minister of Labor left office alleging that general elections cannot wait until 2024, as agreed by the Boluarte Administration.
«The situation merits a change of face in the country’s leadership and of an advance of elections that cannot wait until April 2024. Not to do so, I believe, generates a wear and tear that, at least in my case, disqualifies me from being able to put into practice the constriction of the dialogue that the country needs», García pointed out in his resignation letter.
BOLUARTE: «I ASK FOR FORGIVENESS, BUT I DO NOT RESIGN».
Dina Boluarte has publicly asked for forgiveness for the situation in the country that has left close to half a hundred dead, while discarding that she will resign from office, as she expressed in a message to the nation hours after having restructured her cabinet.
«I cannot fail to reiterate my regret for the deaths of Peruvians in the acts of protests. I ask forgiveness for this situation and for what has not been left undone to avoid these tragic events,» the president lamented.
«I will not resign. My commitment is with Peru and not with that minuscule group that is making the country bleed,» she declared in reference to the governors and social organizers who have requested her resignation.
However, Boluarte has reiterated that he does not intend to stay in power, remarking that he has asked for the elections to be brought forward. Likewise, he pointed out that he has arranged for the strengthening of the dialogue within the Executive, so that there may be «concrete results» with the population.
The President of Peru criticized the violence of the protests, including the seizure of airports or the burning of infrastructures, and denounced the politicians who are «inciting» the «chaos and uncertainty» to benefit themselves in the face of the electoral campaign.
The Peruvian Public Prosecutor’s Office has confirmed that the death toll exceeds 40 people, including a police officer, and 530 injured. For its part, it has informed that more than 300 citizens have been arrested for having committed «crimes against public administration, riots, violence, resistance to authority and hindering the functioning of public services».
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
