Peru's Boluarte taps justice minister to fill prime minister opening


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  • Thursday, 15 May 2025

Peru's President Dina Boluarte attends a meeting with Venezuela's opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez, in Lima, Peru January 29, 2025. REUTERS/Alessandro Cinque/File Photo

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Wednesday named Eduardo Arana, the Andean nation's latest justice minister, to become prime minister.

Arana steps into his new role a day after the previous prime minister, Gustavo Adrianzen, resigned ahead of a censure vote he was facing in Congress on his handling of crime and the killing of a group of 13 miners.

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