LatinNews Daily Report - 18 March 2014

POLITICS | Humala secures key vote. On 17 March Peru’s 130-member unicameral congress passed a vote of confidence in the new cabinet led by Prime Minister René Cornejo. The vote, which received 66 votes in favour, 52 against and nine abstentions, is a major boost for the government led by President Ollanta Humala, following congress’s initial failure to ratify the new cabinet, appointed on 24 February. That congressional negative, unprecedented under the current 1993 constitution, had threatened a major political crisis for the Humala government. Yesterday’s vote followed pledges by Cornejo that the new cabinet would not allow “any type of [outside] intromission” – a reference to the perceived influence of First Lady Nadine Heredia in government. As well as the support  from the ruling Gana Perú coalition, the other favourable votes came from  Perú Posible, the party of former president Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006), as well as Acción Popular-Frente Amplio and the Partido Popular Cristiano-Alianza para el Progreso. The negative votes came from the Fujimorista Fuerza Popular, plus Concertación Parlamentaria (which includes members of the Partido Aprista Peruano of former, president Alan García [1985-1990, 2006-2011]).

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