Confession. Before his attempted coup, the former president Pedro Castillo proposed to Alejandro Salasthen Minister of Culture, relieve in the position of head of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM) to Hannibal Torres. Salas was chosen by the person who was a rural school teacher and left-wing trade unionist, first, for the position of head of Culture; and then when finally Betsy Chavez he assumed the position left by Torres Vásquez, for the Labor portfolio.
“To me, the former president, in June and November (2022), he offers me to be premier, information that leaks and that the media were handling. He offers me to be premier, in some cases, due to recommendations they had received from some benches of the Congress. So, in June, he calls me one Saturday at seven at night. He tells me, ‘Please, I need you to get ready to step forward. I’ve been evaluating and I think it’s time to refresh the cabinet’“told on Channel N.
Alejandro Salas: minister involved in the coup
Former minister Alejandro Salas is one of the people close to the entourage of Pedro Castillo that is involved in the coup d’état of December 7, 2022. For this reason, the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations of Congress He cited him in order to clarify if he was in the presidential office when the former president gave the Nation’s message announcing the closure of Congress.
To which Alejandro Salas maintains his position that he did not know about Pedro Castillo’s message, because although he was in the Government Palace, he was not aware of the coordination that the former president was carrying out at that time. The head of Labor indicates that upon learning of the new measures announced by the Government, he decided to resign from office.
