on Monday asserted that the Government's first priority is to guarantee the basic rights of the people.
While presenting the Government's General Policy at Congress, the Cabinet Chief expressed her commitment to guarantee the well-being of each Peruvian citizen —a huge and indispensable task, which is also largely uncompleted.
This objective puts an emphasis on historically-excluded and most vulnerable citizens, addressing the structural causes of those problems, also considering the health and social crisis that has left more than 200,000 citizens dead and thousands of jobs lost.
"For this reason, intersectoral work and intergovernmental coordination are key pieces, yet insufficient," Vasquez indicated.
"I want to emphasize that all State powers need to push in the same direction so as to build a society in which there are no second-class citizens based on ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, language, or age," she pointed out.
Therefore, the high-ranking official said one of her Cabinet's priorities is to strengthen social protection systems, as well as lay the foundations to start to reform political action and public function in order to shape a truly efficient State.
According to Article 130 of the Constitution, the Prime Minister must attend Congress joined by the Cabinet to present and debate the Government's General Policy —within 30 days after having been sworn in to office.