OAN Staff Abril Elfi
1:59 PM – Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Gustavo Adrianzén, the prime minister of Peru, resigned just hours before he was due to face a no-confidence vote in the country’s Congressional government.

Members of Peru’s Congress asked for a no-confidence vote following the recent kidnapping and murder of 13 mining workers.

Adrianzén’s departure is another setback for the ailing president, Dina Boluarte, whose support ratings have plummeted as crime rates in the country have continued to rise.

The departure of the prime minister, the third to serve under Boluarte, caused the president to replace her entire cabinet due to Peru’s constitution, which states all ministers have to step down if the prime minister quits. 

Even though Boluarte can rename the same people to the posts they resigned from, she can only do so once a new prime minister is in place.

Members of parliament from both the left and right have called for Adrianzén’s resignation over his handling of the unprecedented outbreak of gang violence, which has resulted in soldiers being deployed under a state of emergency.

In recent months, hundreds of people have come to the streets to protest the growing problem of extortion, as gangs demand payments from even the smallest businesses. They demanded “an immediate answer to combat extortion and targeted killings.”

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