Pedro Castillo: what are the ministries where you would prepare changes?

One day after Congress will deny you permission to attend the change of command in Colombia, the President of the Republic, peter castle, fine-tune the details to make at least five changes in the Ministerial Cabinet. However, without the urgency of the trip to Bogotá, from the Government Palace, they do not rule out that the swearing-in will be delayed.

Sources from El Comercio indicated that ministers Oscar Graham (Economy and Finance), César Landa (Foreign Relations), Diana Miloslavich Túpac (Women and Vulnerable Populations), Andrés Alencastre (Agrarian Development and Irrigation) and Modesto Montoya (Environment) would leave the Executive. .

The situation of José Gavidia, head of Defense, is also being evaluated. Precisely, he, upon leaving the Government House, said that “only God knows” if he will continue in office.

During the morning, President Castillo had a series of meetings, one of them was with the economist Kurt Burneo, former Minister of Production in the Ollanta Humala administration (2011-2016). The former deputy finance minister (under Alejandro Toledo’s mandate) would be among the options to succeed Graham.

Another of the letters analyzed by the head of state – according to sources in this newspaper – is that of Betty Sotelo Bazán, current deputy minister of finance.

The professor also held an appointment, lasting almost an hour, with Lourdes Huanca Atencio, who chairs the National Federation of Peasant, Artisan, Indigenous, Native and Salaried Women of Peru (Fenmucarinap).

Huanca Atencio acknowledged to El Comercio, last February, that, after the departure of Congresswoman Katy Ugarte (today in the Magisterial Bloc) from the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations, the president “was kind enough to call me and told me that I assumed”. At that time, she rejected the offer, but recommended Miloslavich Túpac.

Another person received by Castillo was Segundo Celestino Fernández Tenorio, an official of the Compensation Program for Competitiveness of Midagri.

The president also met with Gerónimo López Sevillano, general secretary of the General Confederation of Workers of Peru (CGTP), Luis Alberto Villanueva Carbajal, deputy general secretary of the Federation of Civil Construction Workers of Peru (FTCCP) and Marino Flores Gonzales , coordinator of the agrarian unions and ronderos, among others.

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The Torres factor

Other sources in this newspaper pointed out that after Parliament denied him permission to travel to Colombia, President Castillo would be trying to convince Prime Minister Aníbal Torres, who submitted his resignation two days ago, to remain in office.

In this regard, the head of Justice and Human Rights, Félix Chero, said there is a “possibility” that the experienced lawyer can stay.

“In politics there are ups and downs, a series of impasses, just as the Executive has been questioned for a series of acts, surely some with good reason, others unfounded, Congress has also been criticized. It is time to rethink a country agenda […] I have asked Torres to stay, that is possible,” said Chero, upon leaving the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM).

Other sources from the Executive indicated that the ministers Alejandro Salas (Culture) and Roberto Sánchez (Foreign Trade and Tourism), as well as the former Ministers of the Interior, Dimitri Senmache, and Labor and Employment Promotion, Betssy Chávez, continue to be alternatives for PCM. . These last two were censored by Congress.

Salas, on his Twitter account, indicated that “confrontations do not fit on the people’s agenda, our country deserves work but above all good results and the Castillo government does have them”, when sharing a video from the Ministry of Culture, where the a balance of his administration in the sector.

The Minister of Culture, in statements to the press outside the Government Palace, said that he does not know if the new team would be sworn in today, because “this is an issue that is being worked on” by President Castillo y Torres, who “it is still in operation”.

He added that he would “never” say no to the country, if the president offers him to work for Peru, no matter where.

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On the other hand, the Alliance for Progress party, through a statement, said that he will not be part of the new Cabinet and also warned his militants that if they accept any position in the Executive they will be expelled. According to Canal N, this statement was made after the president had proposed to the former first vice president Marisol Espinoza, part of the ranks of the apepism, to assume the PCM and she had rejected it.

Espinoza is currently also an adviser to the head of Congress, Lady Camones.

This newspaper tried to communicate with the former parliamentarian, but she did not respond to our calls or messages.

The general secretary of APP, Luis Valdez, told El Comercio that he did not know about an invitation to Espinoza, but remarked that she “would never make herself available” to an “incapable and not very transparent” government.