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LIMA, Peru — President Alan Garcia announced Saturday that he has appointed a leftist governor to become Peru’s chief Cabinet minister, a day after the minister’s predecessor resigned along with 16 colleagues amid a brewing oil-kickbacks scandal.
Longtime politician and veterinarian Yehude Simon, 61, will replace outgoing Cabinet chief Jorge del Castillo in the position, Garcia said. Simon himself had announced the posting earlier Saturday in an interview with Peru’s RPP radio.
Simon also said that two of the officials who resigned, Foreign Minister Garcia Belaunde and Trade Minister Mercedes Araoz, will stay on in their posts in the new, multiparty Cabinet. Garcia did not confirm that in his statement.
