Alejandro Salas on Sonaly Tuesta's resignation: “If you didn't feel comfortable with the premier's words, you shouldn't have waited to be asked to resign”

On Thursday, former Deputy Minister of Cultural Heritage Sonaly Tuesta reported that she was asked to resign after she spoke out against the statements of Prime Minister Aníbal Torres, about Adolf Hitler. Faced with this, the Minister of Culture, Alejandro Salas, considered that he should not have expected to be asked to resign from office, but should leave him of his own free will.

The minister indicated that Sonaly Tuesta's request to leave office came after he questioned the premier's statements in public. He pointed out that this should not have happened and the former official had to request an appointment with the head of the Ministerial Cabinet to express her disagreement in person and in private.

“If she didn't feel comfortable with the premier's words, she shouldn't have waited to be asked to resign, but should have resigned on the spot and not say it and continue in a position where she was with a premier who did not represent her, according to her words,” she said in an interview with RPP Noticias.

“He is not being thrown out, that is not the case, that is a position of trust where there are levels of hierarchy that deserve all the respect of the case, regardless of the situation, there are forms within the field of public administration and I think he should have made an appointment with the premier so that they can dialogue and talk,” he added.

Regarding the same statement by Aníbal Torres, Salas indicated that the head of the Cabinet of Ministers realized that he did not use a good example and apologized of the case in the same place, minutes after it was used. He pointed out that there is no doubt that Hitler was a genocide and that he should not be remembered anywhere.

RESIGNATION OF SONALY TUESTA

Journalist Sonaly Tuesta reported, through her Twitter account, that she was asked to resign from the position of deputy minister of cultural heritage of the Ministry of Culture, after she rejected the premier's statements.

“Today I was asked to resign from the post of Deputy Minister of Cultural Heritage and Cultural Industries of the Ministry of Culture. To speak out against the Premier's speech that emulates the genocidal Hitler as a symbol of development. Obviously, I'm leaving office,” he wrote in his tweet.

WHAT DID ANÍBAL TORRES SAY?

On the morning of April 7, the head of the Ministerial Cabinet, Aníbal Torres, participated in the session of the Decentralized Council of Ministers in Huancayo. During his speech, he cited Adolf Hitler as an example of management in development and infrastructure.

“I give you an example: Italy, Germany was just like us, but once Adolf Hitler visited northern Italy and Mussolini visited a motorway built from Milan to Brescia. Hitler saw that went to his country and filled it with motorways, airports and made Germany the first economic power in the world,” he said.

This would not be the first time that the premier used the figure of Adolf Hitler in his statements. In March, the president of the Council of Ministers, speaking out against the ruling of the Constitutional Court (TC) in favor of the release of Alberto Fujimori, compared the former president to the dictator Adolf Hitler.

“We must recognize his good deeds, but I give them as an example: in Germany was it not Adolf Hitler who made him a world power? It was him, but he was condemned, not only by the Germans, but by the whole world, for the great crimes he committed. No one is judged -judicially- for his good works, he is judged for evil deeds,” he said at the time.

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