The congressman of Free Peru Jaime Quito responds on the possible change of cabinet What would the president do? Peter Castle. He says that a decision of this nature is not a solution to the country’s problems, that what is needed is a structural change.
What do you think of the possible cabinet change?
We live in a country of rumors and that makes life more charming. I have no further knowledge of the subject, I have not been informed, but odds always exist and making changes or not is part of the prerogative of the president.
Is it necessary to change ministers?
What I would point out is that the Executive should make, rather than change ministers, a change in economic policy. This has to be done as soon as possible in order to move forward. In the provinces farthest from Arequipa there is a tremendous forgetfulness and what we need is a process of change. Our basic resources are in private hands, with oligopolies and monopolies, that impose on us what we should do in the country. We have to eliminate the gaps.
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Would the Minister of Economy have to go, then?
The Minister of Economy would have to take that turn, the Government As a whole, it is the one that has to take that turn because neoliberal policies have not solved the country’s problems. On the contrary, its application is what does not allow to give an answer to the problems.
For you, does the current cabinet do a good job?
That is even subjective. Look, what is needed is a new constitution because there is a generalized crisis, which is not only aimed at the Executive and the Legislative, but also in all the institutions. There is an institutional crisis, that is why it is important to make these deep changes and that happens with having a new legal framework. A refoundation of the country is needed.
What is profound change for you?
We need deep changes, not only of people. Deep change means changing structures. We are destroying our energy, food sovereignty, what we could be as a country. And in that sense the debate has to go. And if he changes to the cabinet, he would have to go in that logic. I understand that this is what the country demands.
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Well, it seems there will indeed be a new cabinet.
A change of cabinet, that’s what the right always asks for. They will only be happy as long as they put in their bureaucrats. I don’t think that the solution to the problems lies there. More than a circumstantial issue, the issue is structural. Changes must be made in neoliberal policy, changes in the administration of natural resources. That is where we have to go.
Would you accept a new cabinet without people from Peru Libre?
You only leave because of the situation. I speak of structural changes.
It is that changes are made by people.
The governing party is not so much of the Government. He has come to the Government with peter castle, but he has prerogatives to decide what to do with the cabinet. The party has no major interference. We have all the predisposition to support, but we want the party’s program to be applied.
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Is the program being applied?
Precisely, when I say that structural changes must be made, it is that no progress has been made towards it yet. The Government has to turn, without any doubt, towards a greater “leftization”.
