President Pedro Castillo announced this Friday, through a message on Twitter, that he did not accept the resignation of the prime minister, Hannibal Torres. This despite rumors of changes in the Ministerial Cabinet in recent days after the premier himself announced leaving office.
“I have not accepted the resignation of Premier Aníbal Torres, who is committed to continuing to work for our country,” reads the president’s Twitter account.
peter castle had announced yesterday that a new ministerial cabinet would be sworn in this Friday, after the alleged resignation of the premier Hannibal Torres in charge.
“I summon the political actors, the political class, civil society, the organizations that, as of today, I am going to make decisions concerning seeing the cabinet. I am sure that, tomorrow, we are going to swear in this cabinet,” he told reporters.
The President of the Council of Ministers, Aníbal Torres, made his position available last Wednesday in a letter addressed to President Pedro Castillo, in which he thanks the trust placed in him and announces that he will return to his job as a university teacher.
Torres had been the premier since February 8 of this year, but chose to step aside for personal reasons. However, he does not mention an irrevocable resignation.
“I am retiring from office after having served, together with you, our country, especially the most neglected and forgotten people. […] Today I have to return to university classrooms with my students, and return to what I missed the most: legal research,” he says in the letter.
Pedro Castillo announced a new ministerial cabinet
President Pedro Castillo, speaking to the press at the Government Palace, called on the “political parties” to work in consensus for the formation of a new cabinet “for the good of Peru.”
“I hope that, in the call that we make, to the extent that the actors of the political class come closer, those who believe in the country, in democracy, welcome. From here, I open this space to the other political parties to that they come closer and once and for all let’s create a cabinet to work for Peru,” he said.
Castillo expressed his intention to continue responding “as many times as necessary” to the Public Ministry for the cases in which he has been investigated, such as the irregular promotion in the Armed Forces and the National Police.
“I must say that within the presidential prerogative that the Prosecutor’s Office could come to the office, to the Government Palace, there is nothing left for me to go and testify not only to the Prosecutor’s Office but to any part of the country, anywhere I am ready to declare (…) But I am not going to submit to media cases,” he said.
With “media cases” the President referred to the statements before the Prosecutor’s Office of the effective collaborators in the framework of the cases under investigation.