The Executive has decided to move key pieces in the Education sector when it only has a little more than six months left until the end of this provisional government. Supreme resolutions signed by the minister of that sector, Jorge Figueroa Guzmán, and also endorsed by President José Jerí, have sealed the changes in two vice ministries that will now be occupied by two officials from none other than the agricultural sector.
And the resolutions published in the official newspaper El Peruano report the resignation of Cecilia del Pilar García from the position of Vice Minister of Institutional Management, in which she had been serving since June 2024.
In his place, Walter Efraín Borja Rojas was appointed, a surgeon who until the day before his appointment was the general secretary of the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri). The new vice minister was also, for almost four years, head of the Pension Normalization Office (ONP).
A second resolution resolves to accept the resignation of María Esther Cuadros Espinoza from the position of Vice Minister of Pedagogical Management, where she had already been since November 2023, and to welcome the appointment of Juan Mariano Navarro Pando, another official who left his position as Senior Management advisor in the General Secretariat of Midagri to join the Education sector.
Navarro worked for more than 25 years in the Ministry of Labor and was also in Essalud. The brand new vice minister is also affiliated with Acción Popular.
Last December, the congressman from Somos Perú, Héctor Valer, denounced that President Jerí, his party colleague until recently, was paying favors to Acción Popular and Fuerza Popular and Acción Popular, through the appointment of regional prefects.
The appointment of these two officials, who have nothing to do with education, is also detrimental to the sector, since they run the risk of being removed from office when the new government is installed and the Minister of Education is sworn in, which could interrupt the sector’s policies and guidelines already planned to be implemented.
Peru21 was able to learn that the changes in the vice ministries were due to pressure from congressmen and regional governors who were demanding to keep in office officials who had been appointed in the administration of the former head of Minedu, Morgan Quero, one of the loyal ministers of former president Dina Boluarte.
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