Peru: President Castillo appoints a politician investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office as Prime Minister | International

Chávez, 33, is a lawyer born in the province of Tacna, on the border with Chile, and previously served as Minister of Labor and Employment Promotion in the current government, a position for which she was censured by Congress.

The president of Peru, Peter Castillo, appointed this Friday as the fifth president of the Council of Ministers Betssy Chávez.

This is a person who until now served as head of Culture and is being investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office for allegedly hiring his relatives for public office.

“For respect for the rule of law and the restitution of balance and the separation of powers, I do swear,” Chávez said in a fleeting ceremony.

There was also present his predecessor, Anibal Torres, whose resignation Castillo accepted minutes before midnight.

On November 14, the Prosecutor’s Office announced the opening of an investigation against the authority.

This, for the alleged commission of the crimes of incompatible negotiation or taking advantage of the position and aggravated influence peddling against Chávez.

The investigation was opened after the Sunday program Cuarto Poder denounced that Chávez had hired the Ministry of Culture.

This, in addition to allegedly having facilitated the link with another state entity to the relatives of businessman Abel Sotelo, with whom he has a personal relationship.

Chávez is a congressman, a position for which he ran for Peru Libre, a party that calls itself Marxist and which also brought Castillo to the presidency.

However, she left that formation last December, just like the president did months later.

5th President of the Council of Ministers of Peru

Chávez becomes the fifth president of the Council of Ministers since Castillo took power in July 2021.

The foregoing, after the resignation presented yesterday by Torres before the decision of the board of directors of Congress to reject “outright” a vote of confidence that he made last week.

The board of directors of Congress made this decision “because they are prohibited matters for its approach.”

He added that, despite the fact that the request for confidence is “a discretionary power provided for the ministers of State. It must comply with current constitutional and legal requirements.

In this sense, Williams said that the approach made by Torres “is a clear attempt to arrogate the exclusive and exclusive power of Congress.”

The foregoing, “to approve or not the trust and to interpret the meaning” of this type of request.

When presenting the request for confidence before the plenary session of Congress last week, Torres warned that the Constitution states that the refusal of a vote of confidence is established when the request is “refused” and not expressly “rejected.”

He advanced, for this reason, that if the mere possibility of receiving the project was declared inadmissible, it would be taken as a denial of trust.

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