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New Peru PM says redrafting constitution is not a priority

October 9, 2021 by David Barret Leave a Comment

October 9, 2021

LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s new prime minister Mirtha Vasquez said redrafting the country’s pro-market constitution is not currently a priority for the government, despite it having been a key campaign promise.

“This government is not proposing (to change the constitution) and won’t propose that overnight,” Vasquez said during one of her first interviews late on Friday with state-owned TV Peru. “Right now, what matters is facing the pandemic…and especially generating economic stability.”

Vasquez, a former head of Congress, is the second person to become prime minister under President Pedro Castillo, who has been in the job just two months.

She is a leftist politician, but considered more moderate than her predecessor https://ift.tt/3BkaUqS, who resigned earlier this week. Vasquez also does not belong to the same party as Castillo, the Marxist-Leninist Free Peru Party.

Her remarks will further calm investors who have been spooked by Castilllo’s campaign promise to redraft Peru’s pro-market constitution.

They also show Castillo’s administration moving away from the more far-left ideas espoused by the Free Peru party, which holds changing the constitution as perhaps its most important proposal.

Peru’s currency and stock exchange rallied after Vasquez’s appointment as prime minister.

The head of the Free Peru party Vladimir Cerron tweeted earlier on Friday that he was unhappy with the new cabinet because in his view it “will be a space from which to defend the status quo”

Vasquez is a lawyer and has represented indigenous communities in conflict with big mining companies, including a landmark case against Newmont Mining Corp’s Yanacocha gold mine.

Still, she said Castillo’s government would support mining, a key source of tax revenue for the country, which is the world’s No. 2 copper producer.

“One of our most important bets is to take advantage of the resources and carry out an activity like mining,” she said.

(Reporting by Marcelo Rochabrun; Editing by Lincoln Feast.)

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