Posted on 10/10/2008 8:39:28 PM PDT by Libloather
Peru's entire cabinet resigns over scandal
Luis Jaime Cisneros, AFP
Published: Friday, October 10, 2008
LIMA - Peruvian President Alan Garcia accepted Friday the resignation of his entire 13-member cabinet, in a bid to avert an opposition censure resolution in Congress over a oil-industry kickback scandal.
"The president has accepted our resignations presented to him on Thursday, and will proceed to reshuffle the cabinet," outgoing prime minister Jorge del Castillo told reporters at government headquarters.
The kickback scandal has been roiling since Sunday when nine audio tapes were leaked to news media covering backroom negotiations between government officials, a former congressman and a top oil baron, in a bid-rigging scheme to have Norway's Discover Petroleum win five oil exploration concessions last month.
The outrage over the alleged kickback scheme fueled a media and opposition campaign to drive Garcia's government out of office, with former presidential candidate Lourdes Flores insisting that any delay in the resignations "will make matters worse."
Leftist National Party leader Ollanta Humala said the case pointed to "serious responsibility on the part of the entire cabinet."
Opposition lawmakers had scheduled a vote on a censure resolution against del Castillo for Tuesday, which was expected to pass given the minority status of Garcia's governing APRA party in Congress.
The political crisis coincides with Garcia's very low, 20 percent approval rating in opinion polls. Garcia is mid-way through his second five-year term in office, which ends in 2011, after serving as president in 1985-1990.
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Nah, that would require a sense of honor.
it boggles the mind when some banana republic has more sense than we do.
how is it, that the most technologically advanced, richest country in the history of the planet,
has a majority union-school and university brainwashed electorate that
might elect the same people that destroyed our economy?
Wow, how times have changed.
More ethics in Latin American politics than here.
Republicans should be screaming for their resignations every day. The democrats did everything they could, with the help of the MSM, of course, to make Mark Foley the face of the Republican party. We should be hanging Dodds and Frank around their necks at every available opportunity. I don’t know if it’s guts or brains that we lack, but it’s a mystery to me.
I know he already lost badly to Obama before and that he has exactly zero idea how to connect with the weak-minded undecideds, but it sure would be entertaining to see how an Alan Keyes campaign would approach some of this. I guarantee you there wouldn’t be an arrow left in the quiver when it was all over. We’d lose, but he would sure say a lot of things that need to be said, and forcefully, too.
In Peru they still have shame.
The liberals here are not burdened with such hinderences.
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