Peru's President Jerí's new cabinet

PERU - In Brief 15 Oct 2025 by Alfredo Thorne

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Last night, the new president, José Jerí, took oath to his new Cabinet, consisting of 18 new ministers. Ahead of the Oath Ceremony at the Presidential Palace, Jerí said that none of the previous ministers would be included and his was a “transition Cabinet and of national reconciliation.” Overall, the Cabinet’s profile was a combination of politicians and technical professionals. His Prime Minister, Ernesto Álvarez, is a constitutional lawyer, former member of the Tribunal Constitucional (TC, our highest court) and member of the right-wing Partido Popular Cristino (PPC). As his Interior Minister, chose Vicente Tiburcio, a former member of National Police’s Grupo Especial de Inteligencia (GEIN, elite investigation group) that led to the capturing of former terrorist leader Abimael Guzman on September 12th, 1992, and was sacked in 2022 by former president Pedro Castillo; and as his Defense Minister, César Diaz Peche, a former member of the Chavin de Huantar elite group responsible for capturing the Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru’s (MRTA, Túpac Amaru revolutionary movement) terrorists that took over Japan’s embassy on December 17th, 1995, and kidnapped 72 high profile hostages that were attending a cocktail party at the embassy. For Ministro de Economía y Finanzás (MEF, economy and Finance ministry), President Jerí chose, Denisse Miralles, a former economy under-minister at the time of former MEF’s minister Jose Salardí. She has worked for about 11 years at Pro-inversión, the agency responsible for undertaking the Public-Private Projects. The rest of the Cabinet consist of professionals that had junior positions at their ministries or politicians for key political ...