President peter castle Mariano González was sworn in as the new Minister of the Interior. Gonzales was Minister of Defense during the government of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, but resigned from the post on November 28, 2016, one day after a journalistic report was released that reported his romantic relationship with his adviser, whom he married in May. 2017. He replaces Dimitri Senmache, censured by Congress, on June 30.
“The ceremony takes place today at 8:30 pm in the Cáceres Hall of the Government Palace. The transmission will be via our social networks and TVPerú, is what the statement published through social networks of the Presidency pointed out. Despite the above, the ceremony took place almost an hour after what was initially announced.
In 2020, González assumed the vice presidency of the Andean Parliament after Mario Zúñiga was removed from that position. In 2019, the Judiciary requested the Andean Parliament to lift his immunity in the framework of the preliminary investigations into the Odebrecht case. Supreme Judge Francisco Távara, former president of the Commission for the Lifting of Parliamentary Immunity, was the one who sent the request at the request of the Public Ministry.
Odebrecht case
According to the initial tax investigations, at the beginning of February 2016, the former minister of the government of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski would have made fictitious legal advice contracts with Odebrecht for a value of S / 77,777.
A few days after this payment was made, Mariano González made a contribution of about S/ 69,000 to the presidential campaign of Peruanos por el Kambio, a group for which he applied and with which he managed to be elected as a member of the Andean Parliament.
However, the prosecutor Germán Juárez requested in 2021 the file of the investigation.
Censorship
As it is recalled, by 78 votes in favor, 29 against and 8 abstentions, the Parliament approved the motion of censure against Dimitri Senmache, now former Minister of the Interior, for the escape of the former Minister of Transport and Communications, Juan Silva Villegas, and the deaths due to clashes between artisanal miners in Caravelí, Arequipa region. In this way, Senmache had to leave the position that he had assumed on May 22.
So far in the management of Castillo Terrones, there are five Interior Ministers who have passed through said portfolio: Juan Carrasco Millones, Luis Barranzuela, Avelino Guillén, Alfonso Chávarry and Dimitri Senmache.
