Betssy Chávez

Betssy Betzabet Chávez Chino (born 3 June 1989) is a Peruvian lawyer and politician, who served as prime minister of Peru from 26 November until 7 December 2022 when she resigned from office. She was Peru's seventh female prime minister. She has been a member of the Peruvian Congress since July 2021 and served as Minister of Culture from August 2022 to November 2022.[1] She previously was Minister of Labor and Employment Promotion, from October 2021 until May 2022, when a censure motion against her was approved.[2][3] She later held the position of Minister of Culture, before being appointed prime minister.[4]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Chávez and the second or maternal family name is Chino.
Betssy Chávez
Chávez in 2022
Member of Congress
In office
27 July 2021 – 22 March 2023
ConstituencyTacna
Prime Minister of Peru
In office
25 November 2022 – 7 December 2022
PresidentPedro Castillo
Preceded byAníbal Torres
Succeeded byPedro Angulo
Minister of Culture
In office
5 August 2022 – 25 November 2022
PresidentPedro Castillo
Prime MinisterAníbal Torres
Preceded byAlejandro Salas
Succeeded bySilvana Robles
Minister of Labor and Promotion of Employment
In office
6 October 2021 – 29 May 2022
PresidentPedro Castillo
Prime MinisterMirtha Vásquez
Héctor Valer
Aníbal Torres
Preceded byÍber Maraví
Succeeded byJuan Lira Loayza
Personal details
Born (1989-06-03) 3 June 1989
Ciudad Nueva, Tacna, Peru
Political partyIndependent (2014–2020, since 2022)
Other political
affiliations		Free Peru (2020–2022)
Democratic Peru (2022)
Alma materJorge Basadre Grohmann National University (LLB)

Chávez is the fifth Prime Minister to be appointed by President Pedro Castillo, which is seen by observers as a result of ongoing political instability.[5] She announced her resignation on 7 December.[6]

Early life and pre-political career

Chávez was born on June 3, 1989, in Ciudad Nueva District, Tacna, Peru.

Education

Chavez studied law at Jorge Basadre Grohmann National University, and was a student leader, holding positions in the student government. She graduated from law school in 2016, and holds a master's degree, with focus on Constitutional Law, from José Carlos Mariátegui University.[7][8]

Career

Chávez worked as a lawyer in the Regional Government of Tacna (2020), a technician and assistant in the Congress of the Republic (2017–2020) and head of practices at the Jorge Basadre Grohmann University School of Law.[9]

Political career

Chávez said that her interest in politics arose from her father's work as a social leader for families that settled in the northern cone of Tacna.

In 2013, she was a candidate for the regional council of Tacna, for Alliance for Progress but she was not elected.

Congresswoman

She was elected congresswoman in the 2021 parliamentary elections with 8,472 votes; she represented Tacna, for the Free Peru party. She took her oath as congresswoman on July 27 of the same year. She is also part of the Democratic Peru parliamentary group.[10]

Castillo swearing in Chávez as minister

Work and Employment Promotion

On October 6, 2021, she was appointed and sworn in by President Pedro Castillo, as Minister of Labor and Employment Promotion of Peru.[3]

In April 2022, various media outlets denounced that the minister had authorized a strike by air traffic controllers, which caused the cancellation of internal and international flights on the occasion of Holy Week. After that, she was questioned by the Congress of the Republic of Peru on May 13. On the 19th of the same month, in Congress, various congressmen presented a motion of censure against Minister Chávez. The following 26, Congress approved the censorship with 71 votes in favor due to her inability to manage and negligence in her performance.[11]

Culture

On August 5 of the same year, she was appointed and inaugurated by President Castillo, as Minister of Culture of Peru. In statements to the press, the new minister mentioned that having been censured as Minister of Labor does not prevent her from assuming the portfolio of Culture. Minister Diana Miloslavich said at the time: "Her censorship does not mean that she does not do an excellent job", and Minister Alejandro Salas stated: "She is a great professional... and, if at any moment (the president) considers that she should be premier". She held that position until the following November 25, being replaced by Silvana Robles Araujo.[12]

President of the Council of Ministers

November 25, 2022, she was appointed and sworn in by President Pedro Castillo as President of the Council of Ministers of Peru; after the acceptance of the resignation of Prime Minister Aníbal Torres.[2]

Controversies

Chávez, then Minister of Culture, through her TikTok account, described the Peruvian Attorney General Patricia Benavides as a "coup plotter" and referred to her as "Blanca Nélida Colán 2.0", a reference to a prosecutor aligned with Fujimorism who failed to prosecute Vladimiro Montesinos.[13] This compounded problems after the initiation of a preliminary investigation against her, related to the favoring of her relatives in public office.[14]

References
  1. PERU21, NOTICIAS (6 August 2022). "Betssy Chávez jura como nueva ministra de Cultura en reemplazo de Alejandro Salas Gabinete Ministerial Pedro Castillo RMMN | POLITICA". Peru21 (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  2. "Peru's Castillo names Betssy Chavez as new prime minister". Reuters. 25 November 2022. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  3. PERÚ, Empresa Peruana de Servicios Editoriales S. A. EDITORA. "Peru: Congress censures Labor minister". andina.pe (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  4. PERU21, NOTICIAS (6 August 2022). "Betssy Chávez jura como nueva ministra de Cultura en reemplazo de Alejandro Salas Gabinete Ministerial Pedro Castillo RMMN | POLITICA". Peru21 (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  5. "Pedro Castillo swears in Betssy Chávez as Peru's new prime minister". MSN. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  6. LR, Redacción (7 December 2022). "Betssy Chavéz presentó su renuncia irrevocable a la PCM tras golpe de Estado de Pedro Castillo". larepublica.pe (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  7. "Otorongo CHAVEZ CHINO, BETSSY BETZABET - 2021". otorongo.club. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  8. Infomercado, Redacción (7 October 2021). "Betssy Chávez Chino: hoja de vida, biografía, perfil y quién es la nueva ministra de Trabajo". Infomercado (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  9. PERÚ, Empresa Peruana de Servicios Editoriales S. A. EDITORA. "Betssy Chávez Chino jura como ministra de Cultura". andina.pe (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  10. "Betssy Betzabet Chávez Chino". www.congreso.gob.pe. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  11. "Congreso censura a ministra de Trabajo Betssy Chávez". Comunicaciones. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  12. PERÚ, Empresa Peruana de Servicios Editoriales S. A. EDITORA. "Silvana Robles Araujo es la nueva ministra de Cultura". andina.pe (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  13. de 2022, 15 de Noviembre. "Bettsy Chávez calificó de golpista a la fiscal de la Nación y la llamó 'Blanca Nélida Colán 2.0'". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  14. de 2022, 3 de Diciembre. "Betssy Chávez, Abel Sotelo y sus familiares aún no asisten a cita del Ministerio Público". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 4 December 2022.
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