The Peruvian President Dina Boluarte, appointed her cabinet this Saturday, three days after assuming the head of state in substitution of Pedro Castillo, arrested and accused of carrying out a coup, with the former superior prosecutor Pedro Miguel Angulo Arana as prime minister and a large presence of women, but not equal.
In a protocol ceremony held at the Government Palace, Boluarte took an oath to Angulo Arana as Chief of Staff and called on him to act against corruption.
After being sworn in, the new Peruvian president continued with the appointment of the heads of the 17 ministries, eight of which are occupied by women.
Boluarte did not appoint ministers for Transport, one of the most pointed out for corruption in the Government of Castillo, as well as for the Work portfolio.
Among those who were named neither are any of the ministers who made up Castillo’s cabinet, despite the fact that all of them announced their immediate resignation minutes after he announced last Wednesday the dissolution of Congress, which was going to govern by decree with an emergency executive, to convene a constituent assembly and to reorganize the justice system.
Many of them, like Boluarte herself, denounced that Castillo’s measure constituted a coup d’etat and some of them, like the then foreign minister, César Landa, asked for international help to stop Castillo.
In front of the Ministry of EconomyBoluarte appointed Alex Alonso Contreras Miranda, who had officiated since August 2021 as Vice Minister of Economy.
Contreras is an economic engineer from the National Engineering University of Peru (UNI), and a Master of Arts in Policy Economics from Williams College in the United States.
Before occupying this position, he served as general director of the General Directorate of Macroeconomic Policy and Fiscal Decentralization of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF).
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The new chancellor is Ana Cecilia Gervasi, who was also Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs in the previous government. She is a lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, with a postgraduate degree in International Relations and a professional degree in Diplomacy from the Diplomatic Academy of Peru and a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics (LSE) in the United Kingdom.
He also has a specialization in multilateral diplomacy from the Institute of Higher International Studies (Iuhei) of the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and PhD studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina).
Likewise swore in César Augusto Cervantes in the Ministry of the Interiora retired general of the National Police, of which he became general commander, and lawyer José Andrés Tello, for Justice and Human Rights.
The list is completed Patricia Correa, in Education; Rosaberta Gutiérrez, in Health; Nelly Paredes, in Agrarian Developmentoy Irrigation; Sandra Belaúnde, in Production; Luis Fernando Helguero, in Foreign Trade and Tourism, and Oscar Vera, in Energy and Mines.
Also to Hania Pérez de Cuéllar, in Housing; former Vice Minister Grecia Rojas, in Women and Vulnerable Populations; Albina Ruiz, in Environment; Jair Pérez, in Culture, and Julio de Martini in Development and Social Inclusion, who was sworn in for “a Peru with development and social inclusion for all Peruvians.”
Is about a cabinet made up of people with a broad technical profilebut with no known links to parties with parliamentary representation.
After being sworn in as president, Boluarte met with the different parliamentary benches with the aim of building bridges with Congress, with an opposition majority, very fragmented and with which Castillo had strong confrontations during his 17-month term.