Peru prime minister to take on double role as finance minister - sources


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  • Friday, 23 Jun 2017

Peru's Prime Minister Fernando Zavala talks to Reuters during an interview at the government palace in Lima, August 3, 2016. REUTERS/Guadalupe Pardo

LIMA (Reuters) - Peru Prime Minister Fernando Zavala will be appointed finance minister and remain in his current post at the head of centrist President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's cabinet, two government sources told Reuters on Thursday.

Zavala, a former executive at brewer SABMiller who served as finance minister in 2005 and 2006 when Kuczynski was prime minister, will be sworn in on Friday, the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity as an official announcement had not been made.

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