One more ministerial change. After Hannibal Torres resigned from the Presidency of the Council of Ministers because Congress denied him the question of confidence, Pedro Castillo has sworn to Betsy Chavez as the new prime minister.
Betsy Chavez It’s not a new face. Let’s review who is today the fifth prime minister of Pedro Castillo in a year and a half of government.
What is the trajectory of Betssy Chávez in the public sector?
Betsy Chavez, 33 years old, is from Tacna. She studied Law at the Jorge Basadre Grohmann National University (UNJBG) from Tacna. He also has a master’s degree in the same branch with a mention in Constitutional Law from the José Carlos Mariátegui University. At UNJBG she was head of internship in 2016 to move, a year later, to work in Parliament.
Although she became known in this government, Chávez began her career in the public sector in 2017 at the Congress. She then went on, in 2018, to be an adviser at the same entity and during these years she also worked as a technician.
In 2020, she returned to her land and was a lawyer at the Regional Government of Tacna.
Then, in 2021, she took the positions for which we know her in politics. Betsy Chavez was elected as a congressman with the party Free Peru. After that, she was summoned in the cabinet of the former prime minister Mirtha Vasquez as owner of Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion in October of last year.
And in that position it was until it was censored in May 2022 by the Congress of the republic and had to leave office.
Apart from his career and his trajectory in the public sector, no further details are known about Betsy Chavez. But they have transcended various controversies in these years in the Government, such as the supreme decree that modified the regulations of the labor outsourcing law Y the accusation of plagiarism of his thesis.
Bettsy Chávez’s cabinet has 6 new ministers
President Pedro Castillo was sworn in at 10 pm on Friday, November 25, to the members of the Ministerial Cabinet led by Betssy Chávez. 14 ministerial personalities were ratified in their position and there were 6 new entries to lead the respective ministries. Among them are 2 congressmen and a former member of the Peru Libre party.
The sworn changes were in the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation of Peru (Midagri): Juan Altamirano Quispe, Ministry of Production: Eduardo Mora, Ministry of Energy and Mines: Oliveiro Muñoz Cabrera, Ministry of Women: Heidy Juárez (Podemos), Ministry of Culture: Silvana Robles Araujo (Peru Libre), and the Ministry of Development and Inclusion: Cinthyia Lindo.
In addition, Kelly Portalatino, a congresswoman who maintains her position as Minister of Health, also belongs to the Perú Libre bench.
Maria del Carmen Alva describes the appointment of Betssy as “provocation”
The Acciopopulista stated that Betssy Chávez would be the “conceited” one of the Government of Pedro Castillo because she has gone through two portfolios and is now the president of the Council of Ministers. Likewise, considered that his appointment would have been intended to “provoke” Parliament after the rejection of the question of confidence, presented by the then prime minister Hannibal Torres.
“Unfortunate that once again, Prime Minister, a person who seeks consensus and dialogue, they put Mrs. Betssy Chávez, who has passed from the Ministry of Labor, in which she was censored, to the Ministry of Culture, when there was pure problem in Chan Chan, Machu Picchu with a strike and Kuelap, which is falling apart because it has not done anything,” he said in Exitosa.
Updated by Shirley Reyes.