A questionable law proposal is the one proposed by the congressman from Free Peru, Américo Gonza Castillo, who intends to change the name of the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations to the Ministry of the Family and Vulnerable Population. And one of his colleagues who has supported him and signed the opinion is his bench colleague, Kelly Portalatino, who was recently sworn in as the new Minister of Health.
In the legislative work records of the parliamentarian, she appears as coatura of this bill together with her colleagues Margot Palacios and Wilson Quispe, from Peru Libre; Paúl Gutiérrez, from the Magisterial Bloc; and Óscar Zea, from Podemos Peru. And as adherents are Alejandro Muñante and Milagros Jáuregui, congressmen from the Popular Renovation caucus.
“It is noted that the current name of the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations leaves aside the other components of the family, such as children and the elderly, who must also be included in the public policies to be developed by the sector,” he says. the project signed by Portalatino.
The initiative was approved in the Decentralization Commission in the previous legislature and is pending discussion in the plenary session of Congress. The opinion has the endorsement of the cerronista bloc, Fujimorism and its allies.
On July 5, when this commission approved said bill, the Ministry of Women ruled rejecting the text. Among the arguments, it stands out that the ruling turns its back on 17 million Peruvian women and residents in Peru and that it reduces the country’s possibility of being part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
On September 14, given that the Board of Spokespersons, chaired by José Williams Zapata, included this norm on the agenda of the Plenary, the Ombudsman’s Office also ruled against it. “(The project) denatures this entity and ignores the discrimination and gender violence faced by women throughout their life cycle,” this institution tweeted.
Portalatino became a minister to replace Jorge López, who was removed from office after Latina revealed that she smurfed thousands of soles, with the complicity of officials from her institution, to later buy an apartment in Jesús María. The new head of the Minsa was previously proposed as the leader in this portfolio. Before Hernán Condori takes over as Hernando Cevallos’s replacement, President Pedro Castillo proposed the position to him, Portalatino even invited her relatives to come to Lima to witness the swearing-in. But Castillo opted for Condori, who ended up being censored.
This time the president did choose her as minister.
