The President of Paraguay, Pedro Alliana, continued this Monday with the reshuffling of the Executive a few days after taking office as head of state following the removal of Santiago Peña, and has proposed the appointment of an official who warned of possible irregularities at Ueno Bank to join the leadership of the Central Bank of Paraguay.
Among the appointments, the one naming Eduardo Ariel González as the new legal adviser to the Presidency stands out; Paraguayan media describe him as a trusted man of former President Horacio Cartes, of the Colorado Party.
Likewise, changes have been made in the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies, where Deputy Minister Juan Pablo Cosp will now head the portfolio in place of Gustavo Villate; and in the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development, which will now be led by Víctor Andrés González, according to the newspaper "ABC Color".
In the financial sphere, Alliana has proposed the economist Fernando Rivarola, former Head of Supervision who warned in advance about Ueno Bank’s operations months before its collapse, to be incorporated into the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Paraguay.
The arrival of Rivalora, removed from his post by the Government of Peña while Alliana was occupying the Vice Presidency as his "number two", is subject to the approval of Congress.
The Senate Chamber is scheduled to meet this same Monday in an extraordinary session to consider this appointment and that of Jorge Luis Schreiner Marengo as the new president of the Central Bank of Paraguay.
Alliana took over the Presidency last Friday, after the removal and subsequent arrest of Santiago Peña as a result of the financial scandal linked to Ueno Bank, whose severe liquidity crisis has left, temporarily, millions of savers, including numerous pensioners, unable to access their funds.