Aníbal Torres says Jorge Alva Coronado has no record: “At least that appears in the documentation”

The president of the Council of Ministers, Aníbal Torres said last Wednesday that the new secretary of the Palace, Jorge Alva, does not present police or judicial records in his documentation nor does it have administrative sanctions.

“The Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, in order to be hired it has been verified that he does not have a police, judicial or criminal record, he does not have administrative sanctions, at least that appears in the documentation,” he said.

In addition, he added that President Pedro Castillo is the one who will evaluate the complaint of family violence against the new secretary general of the presidential office.

“On these other facts, it will be evaluated by the President of the Republic,” added the prime minister, who did not delve into the issue of the new secretary of the presidential office.

As you recall, a police report accessed by the newspaper Peru21 reveals that on October 9, 2013, Jorge Alva Coronado's wife, Lourdes Rubio Castro, claimed to have been the victim of forced withdrawal from the home by her spouse and filed a complaint against him.

Later, in 2018, Alva Coronado was removed from his home due to the constant “physical, psychological and verbal aggressions” against his wife and children, according to the police report.

ASK FOR RESIGNATION OF OFFICIALS

The new secretary general of the Presidential Office, Jorge Alva Coronado, who took office last week, asked 17 officials of the Government Palace to make their positions available as incumbent or responsible directors.

According to the multiple memorandum 004-2022-DP/SG of March 16, which journalist Tito Alvites shared on social networks, officials include Beder Camacho Gadea , Deputy Secretary General of the Presidential Office, Rodolfo Idrogo Mejía, Director of Strategic Communication and Institutional Image and in charge of the Secretariat of Communication and Press; Rodolfo Ramírez Apolinario, Secretary of the Council of Ministers; Jorge Enrique Gamarra Mendoza, Director (e) of the Office of Telecommunications, among others.

He also asks him to place his position at the disposal of Brigadier General Willy Bueno Balvín, as head of the Military House, and Irma Rojas Regalado, director of the President's Spouse Support Office.

Also included are Arturo Arciniega Calderón, director (e) of the Protocol Office; Jorge Gamarra Mendoza, director of the General Office of Administration, among others.

All this was mentioned in a statement that says the following to public opinion:

“I write to you cordially and in my capacity as secretary general of the Presidential Office (...) to request that you submit to this office your letter of disposition for the position of senior managers as incumbents and/or managers”, the official statement reads.

Jorge Alva Coronado also stated that the letter should be sent to him until the day it was issued “at the latest”. However, Beder Camacho is also appointed as head of Documentary and Archive Procedures, so he would leave his position at Palacio but continue to work for the Executive.

“At this moment I would like to say by looking into the eyes and eyes of all Peruvians: in the Government Palace there is no cabinet in the shadow. The one who speaks to you is the appointed assistant secretary general and at that time I assume the General Secretariat in charge of the Presidential Office, and our sole purpose is to fulfill our functions for which we have been appointed,” he told the press earlier.

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