MPP: Some notes on the current political situation

We hereby share a statement issued by the Peru People’s Movement (MPP) shared by the Association of New Democracy – Germany.

Proletarians of all countries, unite!

Some notes on the current political situation

-Replacement of president due to coup d’état, crisis in the ‘heights’, crisis in the politics of the ruling class-

The Peruvian State is a bureaucratic dictatorship, based on the alliance of the exploiting classes: the big bourgeoisie (which is the one in charge) and the big landlords (under the command of imperialism). This implies a dictatorship; the form can be parliamentary or military. In Peru and Latin America, the mistaken idea of calling only military coups a dictatorship has spread. However, that is not the case, there are also civil dictatorships through elections or parliamentary coups, etc. That means that the changes of authorities of the old Peruvian State take place through elections or coups d’état. What we pointed out allows us to see clearly the recent development of the political situation in the country.

As the media reports:

“Dina Boluarte became the sixth president of Peru to leave power in less than 10 years after being vacated by the Congress of the Republic.

The armed attack against the musical group Agua Marina in the Chorrillos Military Circle marked a crucial turn in the political and social crisis that Peru is going through. It deepened the perception of social decomposition and catalyzed the presentation of presidential vacancy motions against Dina Boluarte. Less than a year before the 2026 general elections, the majority of parliamentary groups, including former allies of the Executive, supported the removal of the president.

José Jerí assumed, at dawn this Friday, October 10, the presidency of the Republic of Peru after the vacancy of Dina Boluarte, and in his first speech before Congress he announced the beginning of a transition stage aimed at national reconciliation, the restoration of institutional trust and the struggle against citizen insecurity. The new president stressed the temporary and exceptional nature of his mandate and called on all political and social forces to build consensus to face the crisis that the country is experiencing.

When the impeachment was approved, and in the absence of vice presidents, the presidency fell to the one who was a few hours ago, head of Congress, José Jerí Oré.”

As we all know, the country is in a new electoral situation to replace the authorities of the old Peruvian State: the president, vice president and deputies and senators (which was eliminated after Fujimori’s “self-coup” (1992) and which is being reintroduced with the next elections in April 2026.

The government of the murderous Dina failed in the three reactionary tasks of its government and, for the people, this has meant more genocide, more hunger and misery, redoubled exploitation and misery and it has bloodily repressed and persecuted the protests of the masses. For the nation, oppressed by imperialism —a nation in formation— it has meant greater surrender to imperialism. A government in which the violence of the State against the masses has increased, the violence of the “warlords” (big landlords and large mining companies) and common crime protected by civil, military and police authorities.

The genocidal Dina remained president until yesterday, presiding over a government rejected by Tyrians and Trojans, which is only sustained by the force of arms and by the parliamentary support of a slim majority of representatives from the different reactionary electoral groups, called “Parties”, including the opportunists of “Perú Libre” with Waldemar Cerrón, who repeats the plate as vice president, some rats from the LOD of the “Magisterial Bloc”, “Socialist Bloc”, followers of Castillo, and others.

A parliament, in which since 2021, more than 50 congressmen have changed political groups -some of them more than three times-. With 67 of its 130 members under inquiries and investigations for alleged crimes against public administration, public faith, and against other assets, up to rape. This applies to the one who was its president until yesterday, José Jerí Oré, and who now serves as president of the old Peruvian State. All of the above expresses greater decomposition, rot; they are falling to pieces.

The main fact that explains this new coup is the new electoral situation, which takes place in the midst of the greatest decomposition of the old State and the old Peruvian society. This situation fuels the sharpening of contradictions in the reactionary field, greater collusion and reactionary struggle.

In turn, the mobilization and struggle of the masses against the greatest oppression and exploitation of the old order, are expressed in the growing popular protest, as an expression of the sharpening of the contradictions between the masses and feudality, the people and bureaucratic capitalism, and the nation and imperialism—, which manifests itself in a concentrated form as the contradiction of the masses-government.

The masses are the arena of contention between revolution and counterrevolution. For this reason, the reaction and its revisionist and opportunist servants try to join in these struggles to unite the masses around the elections of the old Peruvian State. In this context, each person seeks benefits from factions, groups and individuals, behind the figurehead of more than 40 electoral acronyms, which claim to be called Parties or fronts. All are at the service of one or the other of the two factions of the big bourgeoisie at the service of imperialism.

In the mobilizations that have taken place from July to September, we have seen, on the one hand, the tendency for the masses to mobilize, increasingly actively, in growing popular protests that develop into great popular explosions. On the other hand, there is a search to use them by reactionaries, revisionists and opportunists.

The replacement of president, crisis in the ‘heights’, crisis in the politics of the ruling class. The parliamentary coup d’état led by José Jerí Oré against Dina Boluarte, head of the fascist, genocidal and country-selling regime inaugurated in April 1992, expresses not only the acute crisis of the old and rotten Peruvian State, but that of the regime itself.

The current crisis, which begins with the election of the Yankee Kuczinsky in April 2016, who is overthrown by a parliamentary coup d’état in the second year of his presidential term, followed by two more parliamentary coups before the 2021 elections. July 2021 new government appointed in reactionary elections of the rondero, opportunist, counterrevolutionary Castillo Terrones, which ends in a self-coup and then a coup d’état of the murderer Dina Boluarte and, October 10, 2025, a new parliamentary coup d’état led by the president of the parliament, José Jerí.

The new parliamentary coup d’état led by the reactionary Jeri is motivated by the need for the reactionary Parties, with revisionists and opportunists included, to distance themselves from the government of the murderous Dina, the most repudiated reactionary government in the history of the old Peruvian State, in order to gain credit and electoral returns for the April elections.

The coup d’état against Dina Boluarte was already on the reactionary political agenda and of its revisionist and opportunist servants; it was on the parliamentary agenda of the Bolívar pigsty, but the day and time were missing. A pretext, a “just cause” was needed and this has been brought about by the acts of common crime (extortion and hitmen) that occurred recently against a band of musicians who participated in a concert in a military club in the capital city (Lima).

These are just a few questions that, we point out for the moment about this new change of government due to a new parliamentary coup d’état, which is not uncommon or something strange, but rather the normality in the development of this fascist, genocidal and country-selling regime as an expression of the greatest decomposition of the old society and the old State, a dictatorship of big bourgeoisie and big landlords at the service of imperialism. As a Peruvian poet pointed out when he learned of the so-called “Arequipa pronouncement” (Odria’s military coup d’état, 1948), “Peru returns to normalcy.”

The new government headed by the reactionary Jerí, questioned for the crime of rape, is just a change of horses in the fascist, genocidal and country-selling regime. Therefore, this new government will bring more hunger and will be more genocidal and country-selling than the previous one. He will seek to bring his government more in line with the current government of Yankee imperialism, led by the genocidal ultra-reactionary Trump.

In this situation, the masses are in an increasingly pressing need to resist the double reactionary attack, on the one hand, from the repressive forces of the Peruvian State itself, from the gangs of the “warlords” of the big landlords and large mining companies, plus a triple attack, from the ever-growing scourge of the gangs of common criminals protected by the civil, military and police authorities of the reactionary State.

For this reason, the current political situation is very bad for the reaction and is very good for the revolution, it serves to advance the task of the general reorganization of the Party in and for a new leap in the incorporation of the masses into the People’s War. To get out of the current recess into an active People’s War.

Peru People’s Movement

October 2025