LIMA (Reuters) - Peru s new prime minister Mirtha Vasquez said redrafting the country s pro-market constitution is not currently a priority for the government, despite it having been a key campaign promise. This government is not proposing (to change the constitution) and won t propose that overnight, Vasquez said during one of her first interviews late on Friday with state-owned TV Peru. Right now, what matters is facing the pandemic.and especially generating economic stability. Vasquez, a former head of Congress, is the second person to become prime minister under President Pedro Castillo, who has been in the job just two months. She is a leftist politician, but considered more moderate than her predecessor https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/perus-castillo-says-pm-has-resigned-two-months-into-his-administration-2021-10-06, who resigned earlier this week. Vasquez also does not belong to the same party as Castillo, the Marxist-Leninist Free Peru Party. Her remarks will further calm
Peru's controversial Prime Minister Guido Bellido, and his cabinet, stepped down only two months after taking office. President Castillo quickly swore in a new cabinet. Bellido said he resigned at Castillo's "request."
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