Overview
- María Cuadros Espinoza sent an irrevocable resignation to President José María Balcázar late Thursday after serving about three months as education minister.
- In her letter she said she acted with integrity and thanked ministry staff and teachers for their work during her short tenure.
- A group of 22 congressmembers, mostly from Fuerza Popular, had filed a motion to interpellate Cuadros over an alleged plan to remove Sunedu superintendent Vicente Santillán.
- Congresswoman Tania Estefany Ramírez García lodged a constitutional complaint accusing Cuadros of breaching several articles of the Constitution, and the Subcomisión de Acusaciones Constitucionales had scheduled review for its July 3 session.
- Cuadros’s exit creates an immediate vacancy at the Education Ministry, leaves unresolved legal scrutiny of her actions toward Sunedu, and puts focus on who the president names next and how the subcommission proceeds.