Peru’s defense minister submitted his resignation “for personal reasons” just two months after taking office

The Minister of Defense of Peru, Daniel Barragán, announced today that he presented his irrevocable resignation “for personal reasons” to President Pedro Castillo, a week after being ratified in his position and in the midst of a struggle between the ruling party and the opposition for the dismissal of the president.“To the public I inform the public that, for strictly personal reasons, I have submitted my irrevocable resignation from the post of Minister of Defense.Barragan tweeted.I thank the President for giving me the invaluable opportunity to serve my country as Minister of State.The resigning minister added in a letter addressed to Castillo, local newspaper RPP reported. The retired Air Force officer had assumed the position on September 23 replacing Richard Tineo, who currently chairs the Ministry of Transport and Communications.After his appointment, newspaper reports revealed that Barragán had run for vice president in the 2021 elections for Union for Peru, a political party very close to Antauro Humala. leader of a radical nationalist group. In 2018 he also presented himself as a candidate to be provincial councilor of Lima.Ni although this information was known, congressmen such as José Cueto demanded that Barragán demarcate his alleged closeness to the ethnocacerist leader. If he does not dissociate himself from the issue of Mr. Antauro Humala, he should not be in the Ministry of Defense,” the opposition lawmaker said.

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