Reference News Network on March 7** According to the Spanish "El País" ** March 6**, the president of the Peruvian Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) Alberto Otarola submitted his resignation on the 5th. According to **, he offered a job to a woman, then courted her, and harassed the woman through messages. Forty-eight hours after the news, Otarola resigned.
According to reports, Otarola is Dina Boluarte's right-hand man. Boluarte, who is very unpopular, does not want Otarola to remain in his position. Otarola claims that she is innocent and that everything is orchestrated against him.
Speaking at a press conference after his meeting with Boluarte, Otarola said: "The country has witnessed a conspiracy, a conspiracy, an offensive that has been planned for months, with the participation of all sorts of people who operate in the shadows and have subordinate interests. They used false means to try to convince the public that I had interfered in the hiring of one or more people, and this was a case.
Subsequently, Otarola blamed the recording on the former Martín Vizcarra, in which he asked for a resume from a woman named Asile Pinedo Vázquez and called her "dear". The woman was hired in the summer of 2023.
It is also reported that Boluarte appointed Gustavo Adriansen as the new chairman of the Council of Ministers on the 6th, replacing Otarola, who resigned on the 5th. Adriansen is a legal expert who has served as Peruvian Minister of Justice and Peru's Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States since February last year. (Compiled by Su Jiawei).