Overview
- Prime Minister Luis Galarreta publicly dismissed reports that he will be replaced, calling the rumors 'chismes' and affirming the cabinet's unity and presidential backing.
- Galarreta said ministerial appointments and removals are sole prerogatives of President Keiko Fujimori and that ministers remain under her continuous evaluation.
- He denied that his tenure is conditional on the El Niño weather emergency and rejected suggestions that recent personnel moves reflected internal political rifts.
- Congress granted the executive 120 days of delegated legislative powers and the government is using that mandate to draft decrees to classify criminal organizations as 'grupos hostiles'.
- If issued, the decrees would permit direct Armed Forces intervention in crime operations and ease use-of-force rules, a change that could shift policing in high-crime regions and affect residents in those areas.