Peru’s Congress granted a vote of confidence to the government led by Prime Minister Mirtha Vásquez, after a debate that was rescheduled due to the death of a member of parliament and the reshuffle of the ministerial cabinet in recent hours.
Congress’ endorsement of the government won the vote in plenary by a score of 68 votes in favour, 56 against and one abstention. Before the decision, Vásquez and the ministers presented once again the actions planned by the government for the coming months.
Vásquez received fewer votes than his predecessor in office, Guido Bellido, also a deputy and who ostensibly, along with about half the caucus of the ruling Peruvian party, voted against the prime minister.
However, it obtained votes from benches more at the center of the political spectrum, which received positively the changes promoted in the Executive.
Vásquez, chosen for the job by President Pedro Castillo, thanked Congress for its support and said she still faces an “important challenge to build trust” with opposition parties that voted against her, such as the Fujimorist Força Popular and the ultra-rightists Renovação Popular e Advances Country.
The government needed to be remodeled on Thursday, with a view to requesting confidence, after the resignation of former Interior Minister Luis Barranzuela, who was asked to organize a meeting at his home, despite the ban on this type of activity due to the pandemic .
Peru’s new interior minister is Avelino Guillén, a former supreme prosecutor who was responsible for the indictment in the 2009 lawsuit that led to former Peruvian proxy Alberto Fujimori to a 25-year prison sentence for crimes against humanity.
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