The five keys to the recomposition of the Government of Pedro Castillo in Peru

Just 70 days, the first government of the president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, who this Wednesday decided to change 7 ministers, including the controversial prime minister, Guido Bellido, and thus mark a distance with the Marxist Peru Libre party, and especially with his leader, Vladimir Cerrón.

After just over two months of a tense internal pulse between the moderate wing and the radical wing of the Executive, Castillo has apparently chosen to stay with the former and dispense with the latter, several of them in the opposition’s crosshairs for be censored in Parliament.

This situation is personified by Bellido, a man of full confidence in Cerrón and the protagonist of a series of episodes that represent the keys to this rapid fall of Castillo’s first Council of Ministers.

1.- THE BELLIDO TWITTER

Since Castillo surprisingly and unexpectedly appointed him as his prime minister, Bellido, who is being investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office for alleged apology to terrorism, he used social networks to take the reins of the Government and make important announcements that would usually correspond to the president.

Thus, taking advantage of the president’s silence and at times passivity, Bellido allowed himself the luxury of showing the Executive’s exit door to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Óscar Maúrtua, and even took the initiative almost in his own name to review the contracts of the oil field. Camisea gas.

2.- THE CERRÓN TWITTER

Also from Twitter, Cerrón did not contribute to the internal conciliation of the Government with direct allusions to the ministers outside his party, as is the case of the Minister of Economy and Finance, Pedro Francke, whom he rejected for considering it "neoliberal".

For Cerrón, a politically trained doctor in Cuba and former governor of the central region of Junín convicted of corruption, Peru Libre was the winner of the elections and, therefore, saw ministers from other left-wing parties who supported the government as interlopers. to Castillo in the campaign.

"The change of cabinet must exclude rightists, ‘caviares’ (wealthy left) and traitors. It is time for Peru Libre to demand its share of power, guaranteeing its real presence or the bench to take a firm position. New Peru and Frente Amplio have already been served"Cerrón wrote this Wednesday.

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3.- THE FREE CHAT OF PERU

The straw that broke the camel’s back was the revelation last week by the virtual medium Epicentro TV of a chat of the parliamentary group of Peru Libre where Cerrón and Bellido himself asked the bench to release a statement demanding the dismissal of Maúrtua.

The conversation revealed a close communication between Cerrón and Bellido with the aim of conspiring against Maúrtua, the second chancellor of Castillo’s mandate after having replaced Héctor Béjar, who resigned in the first weeks of the Government due to controversial statements about the Peruvian Navy.

4.- IMMINENT CENSORSHIP

Another of the ministers replaced is that of the Labor portfolio, Iber Maraví, who is very close to Castillo and approved the registration of the education workers union founded by the president.

However, Maraví seemed to have his days numbered in the Government before an imminent censorship promoted by the opposition in Congress after his name was disseminated in some police interrogation documents from the 80s in which he was linked to the Shining Path.

"We already have the censorship of Maraví on the agenda and now I believe there is also an interpellation of Bellido"Keiko Fujimori, the loser of the elections against Castillo and leader of the opposition, had said hours earlier.

5.- GENDER DISPARITY

The change of ministers also allowed the residual female presence in the Peruvian Executive to be increased to five, where until now it had two women out of a total of nineteen ministries: the vice president and minister of Development and Social Inclusion, Dina Boluarte; and Women and Vulnerable Populations, Anahí Durand.

They are now joined by the new prime minister, Mirtha Vásquez, the congresswoman from Peru Libre Betssy Chávez, one of the most critical of Cerrón and Bellido; as well as the activist for human rights and historical memory Gisela Ortiz.

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