Who is Dina Boluarte? First female president of Peru

Lawyer and politician with a leftist tradition, Dina Boluarte, was born on May 31, 1962 in Chalhuanca, Apurímac, Peru.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
07 December 2022 Wednesday 18:30
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Who is Dina Boluarte? First female president of Peru

Lawyer and politician with a leftist tradition, Dina Boluarte, was born on May 31, 1962 in Chalhuanca, Apurímac, Peru. She became the first president of Peru this Wednesday, when she was sworn in before the plenary session of Congress, after Parliament dismissed Pedro Castillo, accused of carrying out a "coup d'état".

Boluarte, 60, graduated as a lawyer from the University of San Martín de Porres and did postgraduate studies at that university. Although not many details are known about her personal life, she was elected as the first vice president of the Republic in the presidential formula of the Marxist party Peru Libre, which last year nominated Pedro Castillo for the country's head of state, and from which she was expelled. due to political differences with their leaders.

The new president was Minister of Development and Social Inclusion from the beginning of the Castillo Government, on July 28, 2021, until the end of November, when the political scenario worsened with the confirmation that Congress was going to subject the former president to a third motion for removal for "permanent moral incapacity".

During her term as vice president, Boluarte represented Castillo on several trips outside the country, in which he was not authorized to travel by Parliament, the last of which was the summit of the Asia Pacific Cooperation Forum (APEC) in Thailand in November. past.

Likewise, she defended the role of women in the events in which she participated, such as the last General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) in which she stated that "there is no sustainable development without the development of women" and highlighted Peru's commitment to empowering women through innovative policies, even though stereotypes and political harassment against women leaders persist.

In recent days, several members of the Executive, such as former ministers Alejandro Salas and Félix Chero, reminded Boluarte that she should resign from office as they had previously agreed, in the event that Castillo was dismissed by Parliament, but she remained silent. .

Instead, the vice president decided to leave the ministry when Castillo made his last change in the cabinet, after the resignation of the jurist Aníbal Torres as prime minister last November and the entry into that position of the legislator and lawyer Betssy Chávez.

She was also president of the Apurímac Departmental Club, a position for which she carried out procedures for the transfer of functions that earned her an investigation by Congress, which finally decided that she had not committed a constitutional infraction.

Boluarte, born precisely in the southern Andean region of Apurímac, ran for political office for the first time in the 2018 municipal elections and again tried for a seat in Congress in the 2020 extraordinary elections with Perú Libre, a movement that included her in the Castillo's presidential ticket a year later.