The Prime Minister of Peru, Alberto Otárola, announced that he had submitted his resignation to President Dina Boluarte after the release in recent days of an audio in which he offered a contract to a young 'friend'.
Having returned from Canada where he was on a business trip, Otárola formalized the abandonment of his position before being received by the head of state who had requested his explanations in a statement.
The audio, broadcast on the TV program Panorama, concerned a phone call in which her prime minister spoke to a young woman, Yaziré Pinedo, asking her for a CV and the possibility of meeting her.
In the investigation opened by the Prosecutor's Office, it emerged that last year Pinedo obtained two payments from the Ministry of Defense, for which Otárola was responsible before taking over the leadership of the government, for a sum equivalent to 12,800 euros.
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