THE NEW CABINET AS A SYMPTOM: MANAGING THE COEXISTENCE OF TWO STATES
The New Cabinet as a Symptom: Managing the Coexistence of Two States The recent formation of a new cabinet clearly reflects the prevailing logic within the political system: the management of a structural duality that the State itself has been unable to resolve. The latest cabinet reshuffle in Peru does not represent an attempt to reorganize power or restore state authority. On the contrary, it clearly expresses the dominant logic of the political system: the administration of a structural duality that the State itself has failed to overcome. In a country where a formal State—legal, normative, institutional—coexists with a real State—informal, illegal, and territorially fragmented—the cabinet does not emerge as an instrument of transformation, but rather as a mechanism for maintaining a fragile balance between these two dimensions. The appointment of a ministerial team lacking strong political backing of its own, marked by high turnover in the Office of the Prime Minister and...