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“It was lifted because Minister Bellido has given a period of 60 days to solve the problem,” Quispe, who was at the meeting, said in a telephone conversation with Reuters.
Images on social networks showed Bellido, a radical legislator from the Marxist party Peru Libre which backed successful socialist candidate Pedro Castillo to take the presidency, arriving for the meeting in the town of Chumbivilcas on horseback.
His surprise appointment on Friday shortly after the inauguration of Castillo heightened fears of a hardline leftist agenda and hammered Peruvian bonds, the Sol currency and the local stock exchange, before the appointment of a more moderate finance minister calmed some jitters.
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