Walter Gutiérrez on Prime Minister Otárola: "Know the codes of political activity"

Updated 12/21/2022 07:29 PM m.

Two weeks after taking office, Dina Boluarte he swore in his second ministerial cabinet. The former Ombudsman Walter Gutierrez analyze the challenges of Alberto Otárola.

Are the changes in the cabinet positive?

It was evident that the change of Prime Minister Pedro Angulo was urgent. Be careful, we are talking about almost the same cabinet, but with a qualitative change in the president of the Council of Ministers. Alberto Otárola has had some advantages; some of them is having passed through the public administration and minister twice. He also knows the political codes of political work. He is a lawyer who knows the legal system, therefore, he will know what ground to step on from a legal point of view.

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Should this be a cabinet for large projects?

Surely in Parliament they will raise severe resistance to his management and even to that of the President of the Republic herself, but I think that over time they will understand that there is a transitional government and will intelligently contain the violence. The same happens with the appointment of the other ministers. They are going to have to take some social measures to give legitimacy to the government of Dina Boluarte. It is not a cabinet for large projects because it is a transition government.

Will they be able to contain the protests and violence?

We live in a fairly fractured country. They must understand that this is not a measurement to see who has or can do more. This is not fought with force and violence but with intelligence, identifying the violent people who were before Pedro Castillo. If they attend to the true social issues, such as: support for farmers due to the situation of drought and lack of urea, or looking at the real situation of the national schools for the start of classes, it will be possible. They must govern and administer the State well. The violence will end to that extent and this government will settle.