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 a motion of interpellation 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 of 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.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
