Peru President-elect reveals technocrat-filled cabinet
Sat Jul 16, 2016 6:11am IST
Peru President-elect reveals technocrat-filled cabinet
LIMA | By Marco Aquino
The 77-year-old former investment banker, who was prime minister under ex-president Alejandro Toledo, shrugged off concerns that his first cabinet lacked savvy political operators and said it would aim to deliver results.
"We're turning the page. What we want is modern politics based on qualified people," Kuczynski, a centrist, said in his first press conference since beating his run-off rival Keiko Fujimori by just tens of thousands of votes last month.
Taking few questions, Kuczynski said he deliberately did not tap any of his party's 18 lawmakers-elect for the 19-member cabinet because he needs them in Congress, where Fujimori's right-wing populist party will hold a solid majority with 73 seats.
"This is a team with the capacity for dialogue and agreement and commitment to Peru," said Kuczynski's incoming prime minister Fernando Zavala, a 45-year-old former finance minister who was most recently the chief executive for beer company SABMiller's (SAB.L) local unit.
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