Daniel Lozano

Updated Wednesday, March 6, 2024-02:40

  • Latin America Love affairs and corruption put Peru's prime minister on the ropes

Alberto Otárola,

all-powerful Prime Minister of Peru until today, has presented his resignation as soon as he landed from Canada, where he was on an official trip.

Previously, President

Dina Boluarte,

his greatest supporter, had decided to dismiss him.

In a rather angry tone, which led him to describe Foreign Minister

González Olaechea as "misplaced and stupid,

" Otárola assured that he had made the decision "so that President Boluarte can recompose her cabinet as she sees fit and can work as it has been doing." ".

An attempt to "give peace of mind to the presidency", as he assured.

"This time I put myself at the service of the country, but from the street," added the strong man of the parliamentary alliance that keeps Boluarte in power, despite his very poor social support, around 10%.

In the end, Otárola has resigned as a victim of a scandal that mixes affairs and irregular hiring, uncovered last Sunday on a television program.

Yaziré Pinedo,

25, has acknowledged having had a romantic relationship "for a week or so" with the president's lawyer.

The young woman later benefited from a contract with the Ministry of Defense,

of which Otárola was head for a few months before assuming the leadership of the Council of Ministers.

Like the young woman did hours before, the former prime minister directly accused former president

Martín Vizcarra

of orchestrating a plot against him, a media and political operation planned for months.

"They have falsely tried to make the population believe that they had intervened in the hiring of one or several people in the State, when this is a hoax," he tried to explain in his speech before the Press.

Local media have added up to seven women hired by the State after previously passing through Otárola's office.

Included in the list are

Sandra Inés Ramírez, Nathaly Torres and Rosenith Pinedo,

who appear in the parliamentary interpellation motion launched by Cambio Democrático.

"¿Qué pretenden? ¿Qué vuelva la violencia? Eso no lo vamos a permitir", enfatizó el recién dimitido, indignado con el canciller porque este anunció al país, tras reunirse con la presidenta, que en el nuevo gabinete iban a buscar relanzar las políticas gubernamentales, "una segunda oportunidad".