Cabinet of Peru

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The Cabinet of Peru (also called the Presidential Cabinet of Peru or the Council of Ministers) is made up of all the Ministers of State. This council is presided by the President of the Council of Ministers, a position likened to that of a prime minister. That position is directly appointed by the President of the Republic. The Prime Minister presides over the meetings of the Council (otherwise known as the Cabinet), unless the President of the Republic is present whereupon he presides.

Functions

The Cabinet has, under the Constitution, the following main duties:

Approve laws that the President submits to Congress
Approve legislative decrees and also urgent decrees that President of the Republic dictates, as well as laws, decrees, and resolutions arranged by law
To deliberate on subjects of public interest.

For the Cabinet to reach any agreement, the approving vote of the majority of its members is required.

Ministers

Ministers of State are in charge of managing politics and the activities of various sectors that direct and manage public services. The requirements to be a Minister of State are to be Peruvian by birth, a citizen, and be at least 25 years of age.

The Ministers of State are appointed discretionally by the President of the Republic, in coordination with the Prime Minister. While individual cabinet members do not require to be confirmed by Congress, when a new Prime Minister is chosen, the entire cabinet is subjected to a Congressional "vote of confidence". Likewise, if the Prime Minister resigns his office, all members of the cabinet are constitutionally forced to resign.

In special situations, a Minister of State in charge of one sector can temporarily assume the role and responsibilities held by another Minister in case of illness, travel, or other absence of the latter. All actions by the President must be approved by the Minister of State in charge of the correspondent sector to be valid under Peruvian law.

Current Cabinet

Ministry	Current	Since date
President of the Council of Ministers	Fernando Martín Zavala Lombardi	28 July 2016
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Víctor Ricardo Luna Mendoza	28 July 2016
Minister of Defense	vacant	November 2016
Minister of Economy and Finance	Alfredo Eduardo Thorne Vetter	28 July 2016
Minister of the Interior	Carlos Miguel Ramón Basombrío Iglesias	28 July 2016
Minister of Education	Jaime Saavedra Chanduví	31 October 2013
Minister of Health	Patricia Jannet García Funegra	28 July 2016
Minister of Labor and Promotion of Employment	Alfonso Fernando Grados Carraro	28 July 2016
Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation	José Manuel Hernández Calderón	28 July 2016
Minister of Production	Bruno Giuffra Monteverde	28 July 2016
Minister of Foreign Commerce and Tourism	Eduardo Ferreyros Küppers	28 July 2016
Minister of Energy and Mines	Gonzalo Francisco Alberto Tamayo Flores	28 July 2016
Minister of Transportation and Communications	Martín Alberto Vizcarra Cornejo	28 July 2016
Minister of Housing, Construction and Sanitation	Edmer Trujillo Mori	28 July 2016
Minister of Women and Vulnerable Populations	Ana María Romero-Lozada Lauezzari	28 July 2016
Minister of Environment	Elsa Patricia Galarza Contreras	28 July 2016
Minister of Culture	Jorge Nieto Montesinos	28 July 2016
Minister of Justice and Human Rights	María Soledad Pérez Tello de Rodríguez	28 July 2016
Minister of Development and Social Inclusion	Lucía Cayetana Aljovín Gazzani	28 July 2016

External links

(Spanish) Official website

National cabinets of South America

Sovereign states	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela

Dependencies and other territories	Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

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