peter castle began to discard the options of Jorge Nieto and Hernando Cevallos for premier the same Monday. That day, when at 7:48 p.m. released a statement announcing a supposed “more participatory and broad-based cabinet,” in reality, it was already on its way to forming a group of ministers only under the criterion of sharing power quotas. Without any government vision.
The statement was raised by a sector of the environment of Castillo, with the certainty that the president would move forward in meeting the recommendations to have a cabinet with more technical professionals, without losing, of course, the presence of some political actors.
That was why that same day had contacted the sociologist Jorge Nieto, as an option for the head of the council of ministers.
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Nieto received a call from Palacio. They told him that the president asked him to come for a meeting on Tuesday.
Along the way, the sociologist and former Defense Minister gave statements to the press and that began to make President Castillo and his entourage uncomfortable. Even more so because of the statements he gave to the effect that he would not summon Hannibal Torres Y John Silva, two characters very close to the president.
“(Aníbal Torres) I don’t think he did a good job, really. The cabinet needs a very strong removal,” he commented.
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So much was the annoyance of President Pedro Castillo that on Tuesday they no longer called Jorge Nieto to specify the time of the meeting at the Palace. There was a change of plans.
As to Hernando Cevallos, the proposal for the premiership had come up since Saturday. That is why on Sunday afternoon he personally goes to the Palace to meet with the president.
The until then Minister of Health insisted on his two conditions: let him decide on the names of the new ministers and remove from his environment those designated as members of the “shadow cabinet”.
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The president neither accepted nor rejected this proposal from Cevallos. He said that it was necessary to meet the objectives set by the Government and from them put together a team. He also emphasized the need to avoid the appointment of ministers with questions.
That’s where the conversation ended. Castillo and Cevallos agreed to continue talking and even had a second dialogue on Monday.
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the swerve
But on Monday night, at 10:15 pm, the president chose to receive the founder of the Peru Libre party, the sentenced for corruption Vladimir Cerrón, who was accompanied by Richard Fredy Rojas García.
The meeting took place after a message sent by Cerrón on his personal Twitter account, as a blackmail: “If the new premier does not guarantee captive seats to the president, he is on the way to opening the suspension or the vacancy.”
It is then that the intention of the participatory cabinet is broken. Everything turned towards a composition based on the distribution of quotas. Later it would be known that there were two sectors assigned to the cerronista bloc of Free Peru.
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As well. After this meeting, on Tuesday morning (7:14 am), the Minister of Justice, Aníbal Torres, entered the Palace. He had been summoned by Castillo specifically to speak about the head of the cabinet.
Pedro Castillo and his close entourage decided to rule out Jorge Nieto and Hernando Cevallos, in an effort to continue maintaining the possibility of the appointments of ministers.
The civil lawyer Aníbal Torres had already received the proposal from the premiership in previous days, but had rejected it. Tuesday was different. He went to the Palace and it is then that they begin to compose the cabinet without major changes and without the participatory or broad-based approach.
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It’s more, The participation of Aníbal Torres in the process of deciding names or eventual changes was very little or almost null. in some sectors.
The Torres cabinet was sworn in that Tuesday, February 8. Photo: Presidency
Peru Libre returns
Vladimir Cerrón managed to place Hernán Condori, a doctor from his environment in Junín, as Minister of Health. who is weighed against for alleged acts of corruption and for encouraging the use of fraudulent products.
And it is that these appointments were quick and Pedro Castillo’s team of advisers did not even have the option of carrying out the necessary filters.
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Just yesterday, Aníbal Torres reported having requested information from the ministers about whether they register complaints about possible cases of domestic violence.
Cerron also achieved place the Minister of Energy and Mines, Carlos Sabino Palacios Pérez. In fact, the founder of the Peru Libre group not only welcomed both appointments, in addition to the composition of the cabinet headed by Aníbal Torres, but also deleted the threatening tweet from the day before.
Added to this is the change in Agriculture. Alberto Ramos He was replaced by Óscar Zea Choquechambi, congressman of the magisterial bloc of Peru Libre. According to sources close to him, the legislator was behind the charge long before.
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With these three designations, Aníbal Torres’ cabinet will have no problem securing Peru Libre’s 32 votes for confidence.
More about the cast
Now, add to this the 7 votes of Democratic Peru, which has Betssy Chávez in the portfolio of the Labor sector.
Somos Perú also has a participation fee, with Alejandro Salas, who was not removed from Culture: 5 votes.
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Together for Peru (JP) maintains its participation with Roberto Sánchez in Foreign Trade and Tourism. Another 5 points, although the bench is still analyzing its support for the cabinet.
So far they already add 49 votes. That is to say, there is already a number higher than the 46 votes with which Salvador del Solar achieved the vote of confidence.
Moreover, Palace sources assure that a Popular Action faction already has a presence in the cabinet with Jorge Luis Prado Palomino in Production.
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Woman and Justice
The situation is different the new Minister for Women, Diana Miloslavich, who comes by invitation. She is part of the Flora Tristán center, but the organization issued a statement stating that her participation is in a personal capacity.
While, the Minister of Justice, Ángel Yldefonso Narro, it comes because of his closeness to Castillo and the advisers. Only between December 2021 and January of this year, this lawyer had 10 visits to the Palace for meetings with Beder Camacho. He is another of the ministers now questioned for defending a sentenced for rape of a minor.
