LIMA (Reuters) -Peruvian Prime Minister Ernesto Alvarez on Wednesday asked Congress to grant the government 90 days of legislative powers to pass laws aimed at tackling security issues.
Alvarez made the request during a presentation to Congress outlining the government plan of President Jose Jeri, who was sworn in earlier this month following the ousting of former President Dina Boluarte.
“The government views security as a matter of state,” he said before Congress, where a vote of confidence is traditionally held at the start of a new cabinet.
“The political and moral mandate of this government is to recover the authority of the state in this short time, restore order in the streets, and ensure that the law once again becomes the expression of justice and not fear,” he said.
On Tuesday, the new government declared a 30-day state of emergency in the capital, Lima, and the neighboring province of Callao to combat rising crime.
(Reporting by Marco Aquino; Editing by Stephen Coates)
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