These are the profiles of the regional prefects of the Dina Boluarte government

Since the beginning of the administration of President Dina Boluarte, in December 2022, the then Minister of Defense and now Premier Alberto Otárola pointed out that the prefects and sub-prefects around the country would be dismissed, positions that ex-president Pedro Castillo used indiscriminately to pay favors to your allies, many of them from Movadef.

“We have found there an element that has contributed to the destabilization of the regions and local representations where these prefects operate,” he declared last December.

In addition to this, the Decentralization Commission approved the bill that sought to eliminate these charges in the face of multiple irregularities.

However, so far, the project has not progressed. Meanwhile, the aforementioned officials have been replaced after the entry of Boluarte, some of them with ties to political parties and government figures.

For example, Pamela Serafin Almoracin, regional prefect of Áncash, is known in her town for being an old friend of the current president.

When she was appointed, no member of the prefecture of that region knew her name, experience and/or background. Upon taking office, Serafin said: “It has nothing to do with belonging to any political party, much less having a friendship with President Dina Boluarte; the designation came as a surprise to me.”

Another of them is the prefect of Huánuco, Uberto Yonell Quispe Domínguez, who is close to the congresswoman of the Magisterial Bloc Elizabeth Medina. According to local media, the now prefect asked his predecessor, Edith Calero, to be nominated for sub-prefect of the Chinchao district.

At that time they claimed that the prefect would have put aside those who worked for Pedro Castillo during the electoral campaign; now his luck has changed.

Likewise, the prefects of Junín (Miriam Silvia Mariano Baltazar), San Martín (Armando Villalobos Leiva) and Huancavelica (Misael Menendez Chávez) were militants of Peru Libre, but they renounced their affiliation. In Piura, Eduardo Samuel José Merino Carrasco is an active representative of Renovación Popular.

In this group there are also former police officers, former mayoral candidates and even characters who repeat the dish. Of the 25 in total, it remains to designate the authority of Callao, Puno and Loreto. There are also prefects who hold the position for the first time in the history of their region, as is the case of La Libertad.

Regarding the bill, this newspaper tried to communicate with the president of the working group, Diana Gonzáles, to find out the status of the proposal to eliminate said charges, but no response was received.