- Title: Peru's Vizcarra swears in new cabinet as congressional rebellion fizzles
- Date: 3rd October 2019
- Summary: LIMA, PERU (OCTOBER 03, 2019) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** NEW PERUVIAN CABINET MINISTERS ENTER ROOM FOR SWEARING IN CEREMONY VARIOUS, MINISTERS ON PODIUM PERUVIAN PRESIDENT, MARTIN VIZCARRA, STEPS ONTO PODIUM VIZCARRA WAVES CABINET MINISTERS AT CEREMONY VARIOUS, VIZCARRA SWEARS IN NEW PERUVIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, GUSTAVO MEZA-CUADRA VELASQUEZ (NOT A SOUNDBITE) MEZA-CUADRA VELASQUEZ SAYS (Spanish) "YES, I SWEAR" MEZA-CUADRA VELASQUEZ GREETS VIZCARRA VIZCARRA LISTENING TO ANNOUNCER VARIOUS, VIZCARRA SWEARS IN NEW PERUVIAN DEFENSE MINISTER, WALTER MARTOS RUIZ (NOT A SOUNDBITE) RUIZ SAYS (Spanish) "YES, I SWEAR" RUIZ GREETS VIZCARRA VARIOUS, VIZCARRA SWEARS IN NEW PERUVIAN FINANCE MINISTER, MARIA ANTONIETA ALVA (NOT A SOUNDBITE) ALVA SAYS (Spanish) "YES, I SWEAR" ALVA GREETS VIZCARRA VIZCARRA AND ALVA ON PODIUM VARIOUS, VIZCARRA AND MINISTERS POSING FOR PHOTOS
- Embargoed: 17th October 2019 20:08
- Keywords: ministers swearing in Peru elections nuclear option legislature dissolve congress Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra cabinet
- Location: LIMA, PERU
- City: LIMA, PERU
- Country: Peru
- Topics: Government/Politics,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA001AZJNZ2F
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Peru's centrist President Martin Vizcarra unveiled a new cabinet on Thursday (October 03) as a dramatic challenge to his leadership by dozens of dismissed lawmakers earlier this week appeared to fizzle out.
No public institution or foreign power has backed the right-wing opposition's charge that Vizcarra illegally dissolved Congress on Monday (September 30) by invoking a nuclear option in the constitution that also forced him to replace his cabinet.
At a ceremony at the presidential palace, Vizcarra swore in 19 ministers, including Harvard-trained public administrator Maria Antonieta Alva as the new finance minister.
It was the latest sign that Peru, the world's number two copper producer and one of Latin America's most open economies, was moving on from its worst political crisis in two decades, with dismissed lawmakers' cries of "coup" fading from headlines in local media.
Peru's electoral authority said it was organizing new legislative elections for Jan. 26, a timeline proposed by Vizcarra that the Organization of American States called "a constructive step" toward overcoming the crisis.
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