One day before taking office, the president-elect, Keiko Fujimori, presented this Monday the first members of the ministerial cabinet that will accompany her during the beginning of her administration, which will be headed by Luis Galarreta as the next president of the Council of Ministers.
The also first vice president of the Republic and Andean parliamentarian assumes the leadership of the ministerial cabinet amid a climate of growing citizen insecurity and a latent threat of an El Niño phenomenon that could cause great damage to infrastructure and productive areas, as well as affect the economy, employment, and public health.
Galarreta, leader of Popular Force, will be in charge of leading the ministerial cabinet and coordinating the general policy of the Government. He has a long political career that began in the late 1980s in the Freedom Movement, which promoted the presidential candidacy of the acclaimed novelist Mario Vargas Llosa.
In 2011, he was re-elected by the Alliance for Great Change, which was made up, in addition to the Christian People’s Party (PPC), by Alliance for Progress, Peruvian Humanist Party, and National Restoration, and which nominated Pedro Pablo Kuczynski for the presidency of the Republic.
In 2015, Galarreta resigned from the PPC and in 2016 joined Popular Force, generating controversy due to his known confrontation, until then, with the orange political organization and his criticisms, even, of Keiko Fujimori, with whom he is now recognized as “political family.”
During a conference at her campaign headquarters, Fujimori also confirmed that Carlos Espá will assume the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and economist Elmer Cuba will head the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF).
That same year he was re-elected as a parliamentarian. In that period, in 2017-2018, he was elected president of the Congress of the Republic. In the last five-year term 2021-2025 he has served as an Andean parliamentarian, a role he has shared with his position as general secretary of Popular Force under the leadership of Keiko Fujimori.
After announcing the election of Luis Galarreta, Fujimori announced the appointment of Carlos Espá as the next Minister of Foreign Affairs.
“The Constitution provides that the president appoints the ministers of State at the proposal of the president of the Council of Ministers, we will exercise this responsibility thinking only of Peru and the need to form a team capable of responding to the enormous challenges of our country. That is why I have the honor of presenting two professionals with extensive experience,” said Fujimori.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a very important role to play, for Peruvians living in Peru and abroad. For Peruvians who painfully left Peru, and through our 59 consulates around the world we must be at the service of those Peruvians,” she added.
“I will give my best effort to lead by example, to be austere, disciplined, and very hardworking,” he said.
Espá has an extensive background in the communications sector and in the management of international cultural projects. For fifteen years, between 2008 and 2023, he served as communications director in the press and culture area of the United States Embassy in Peru, based in the Lima district of Santiago de Surco.
The Lima lawyer gained national notoriety as the host of the Sunday program Cuarto Poder and later ventured into politics as founder of the SíCreo party and candidate for the presidency in the 2026 General Elections.
On the other hand, the president-elect announced that on July 28 the other members of the Cabinet will be announced.
At the conference held at the office of the President-Elect in San Isidro, Elmer Cuba was also presented as the next Minister of Economy.
Cuba said he arrived at the new government with the best expectations and eagerness to move the country forward. He also stated that economic reforms will be carried out so that Peru can grow again. “Diario El Comercio. All rights reserved.”
“Madam President, premier, I have accepted the invitation to be part of this government with the best expectations, eagerness, and strength to lead Peru forward in the next five years; to carry out the economic reforms that have been awaited all century so that Peru can grow healthily again, generate jobs and tax resources so that Peru can spend them on equal opportunities, close infrastructure gaps, and steer the country towards development,” he said.
“We come from behind, we are advancing, but the hardest part is still missing. We have achieved macroeconomic stability, low inflation, fiscal solvency, but the population has not yet felt that growth in their salaries, in their well-being,” Cuba added. “Diario El Comercio. All rights reserved.”
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