The Peruvian president, Dina Boluarte, named her cabinet today, three days after assuming the head of state to replace Pedro Castillo, arrested and accused of carrying out a coup, with former top prosecutor Pedro Miguel Angulo Arana as prime minister and large presence of women, but not equal.
In a protocol ceremony held at the Government Palace, Boluarte swore in Angulo Arana as chief of staff and urged him to act against corruption.
After being sworn in, the new Peruvian president continued with the appointment of the heads of the 17 ministries, eight of which are occupied by women. Boluarte did not appoint ministers for Transportation, one of the most accused of corruption in the Castillo government, nor for Labor.
None of the ministers who made up Castillo's cabinet are among those who were appointed today, despite the fact that all of them announced their immediate resignation minutes after he announced last Wednesday the dissolution of Congress, which was to govern by decree with an executive of emergency, to convene a constituent assembly and to reorganize the justice system.
Many of them, like Boluarte herself, denounced that Castillo's measure constituted a coup d'etat and some of them, like the then foreign minister, César Landa, asked for international help to stop it.
At the head of the Ministry of Economy, Boluarte appointed Alex Alonso Contreras Miranda, until now vice minister of the branch.
Contreras is an economic engineer from the National Engineering University of Peru (UNI), and a Master of Arts in Policy Economics from Williams College in the United States. Before occupying this position, he was general director of Macroeconomic Policy and Fiscal Decentralization of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF).
The new chancellor is Ana Cecilia Gervasi, who was also vice minister of Foreign Affairs in the previous government. She is a lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, with a postgraduate degree in International Relations and a professional degree in Diplomacy from the Diplomatic Academy of Peru, a Master's Degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics (LSE) of the United Kingdom.
He also has a specialization in multilateral diplomacy from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (IUHEI) of the University of Geneva and doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires.
Likewise, Cesar Augusto Cervantes, a retired general of the National Police, of which he became commander general, and the lawyer José Andrés Tello, in Justice and Human Rights, assumed the Interior portfolio.
The list is completed by Patricia Correa, in Education; Rosaberta Gutiérrez, in Health; Nelly Paredes, in Agrarian Development and Irrigation; Sandra Belaúnde, in Production; Luis Fernando Helguero, in Foreign Trade and Tourism, and Oscar Vera, in Energy and Mines.
Hania Pérez de Cuéllar, in Housing; former Vice Minister Grecia Rojas, in Women and Vulnerable Populations; Albina Ruiz, in Environment; Jair Pérez, in Culture, and Julio de Martini in Development and Social Inclusion, who was sworn in for "a Peru with development and social inclusion for all Peruvians."
It is a cabinet made up of people with a broad technical profile, but with no known ties to the parties with parliamentary representation.
After being sworn in as president, Boluarte met with the different parliamentary groups with the aim of building bridges with the Congress, with an opposition majority, very fragmented and with which Castillo had strong confrontations during his 17-month term.
