Peru’s Castillo appoints new Prime Minister

Peru’s leftist president, Pedro Castillo, has sworn in Betssy Chávez as the country’s new prime minister on Friday, replacing Aníbal Torres, who resigned from the post after the failure of a question of confidence in the Andean Parliament.

Chávez, until now Minister of Culture, will thus serve as the fifth Peruvian head of government under Castillo, who took over the reins of the presidency just over 16 months ago, in July 2021.

Castillo will have to appoint in the next hours the rest of the ministerial Cabinet in what is already a new change of course in a particularly convulsed national politics, marked in the last months by the incessant motions of censure and voluntary departures of ministers.

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