Peru: SOME NOTES ON THE CURRENT POLITICAL SITUATION
We hereby share an unofficial translation of a note of a note on the current political situation in Peru from Movimento Popular Perú, published on Bandera Roja.
Proletarians of all countries, unite!
Some Notes on the Current Political Situation
-President replaced by a coup d’état, crisis at the top, crisis in the politics of the ruling class-
The Peruvian State is a bureaucratic dictatorship based on an alliance between the exploiting classes: the big bourgeoisie (which is in charge) and the big landlords (under the command of imperialism). This implies a dictatorship, which can be parliamentary or military in form. In Peru and Latin America, the mistaken idea has spread that only military coups are dictatorships; but this is not the case, as there are also civilian dictatorships through elections or parliamentary coups, etc. That is, the replacement of authorities in the old Peruvian State takes place through elections or coups d’état. This allows us to see clearly the recent development of the political situation in the country.
As reported by the media:
“Dina Boluarte became the sixth president of Peru to leave office in less than 10 years after being removed by Congress.
The armed attack on the musical group Agua Marina at the Military Circle in Chorrillos marked a crucial turning point in the political and social crisis Peru is undergoing… It deepened the perception of social breakdown and catalyzed the presentation of motions to remove Dina Boluarte from office. Less than a year before the 2026 general elections, most parliamentary groups, including former allies of the executive branch, supported the president’s removal from office.
José Jerí assumed the presidency of the Republic of Peru in the early hours of Friday, October 10, following the vacancy of Dina Boluarte. In his first speech to Congress, he announced the beginning of a transition period aimed at national reconciliation, restoring institutional confidence, and combating public insecurity. The new president emphasized the temporary and exceptional nature of his mandate and called on all political and social forces to build consensus to address the crisis facing the country.
When the impeachment was approved, and in the absence of vice presidents, the presidency fell to José Jerí Oré, who until a few hours earlier had been the head of Congress.”
As we all know, the country is in a new electoral cycle to replace the old Peruvian State authorities of president, vice president, deputies, and senators (which was eliminated after Fujimori’s “self-coup” in 1992 and is being reintroduced with the upcoming elections in April 2026).
The murderous Dina government failed in the three reactionary tasks of its government and, for the people, has meant more genocide, more hunger and misery, redoubled exploitation and misery, and 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. This is a government in which State violence against the masses has increased, as has the violence of the “warlords” (large landowners and big mining companies) and common crime protected by the civil, military, and police authorities.
The genocidal Dina remained president until yesterday, presiding over a government repudiated by both sides, which is only sustained by the force of arms and the parliamentary support of a meager majority of representatives from various reactionary electoral groups, called “parties,” including the opportunists of “Perú Libre” with Waldemar Cerrón, who is repeating as vice president, along with some rats from the ROL of the “Bloque Magisterial,” “Bloque Socialista,” “Castillistas,” 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 investigation for alleged crimes against the public administration, public trust, and property, among others, including rape. Like the man who was its president until yesterday, José Jerí Oré, who now serves as president of the old Peruvian State. All of the above is an expression of greater decay, of rot, of falling apart.
The main factor explaining this new blow is the new electoral situation, which is taking place amid the greatest decomposition of the old State and the old Peruvian society. This situation is fueling the sharpening of contradictions in the reactionary camp, greater collusion, and reactionary struggle.
In turn, the mobilization and struggle of the masses against the increased oppression and exploitation of the old order is expressed in growing popular protest as an expression of the sharpening contradictions between the masses and feudalism, the people and bureaucratic capitalism, and the nation and imperialism, which manifests itself in a concentrated form as the contradiction between the masses and the government.
The masses are the battleground between revolution and counterrevolution. That is why the reactionaries and their revisionist and opportunist servants try to ride on the coattails of these struggles to harness the masses to the electoral bandwagon of the old Peruvian State. In this, each seeks the benefit of factions, groups, and individuals behind the mask of more than 40 electoral acronyms, which call themselves parties or fronts. All of them are at the service of one or the other of the two factions of the big bourgeoisie in the service of imperialism.
In the mobilizations that have taken place from July to September, we have seen, on the one hand, the tendency of the masses to mobilize, increasingly active, in growing popular protest that is leading to large popular explosions. And, on the other hand, the attempt by reactionaries, revisionists, and opportunists to use them.
Change of president, crisis at the top, crisis in the politics of the ruling class. The parliamentary coup led by José Jerí Oré against Dina Boluarte, head of the fascist, genocidal, and traitorous regime inaugurated in April 1992, expresses not only the acute crisis of the old and rotten Peruvian State, but also that of the regime itself.
The current crisis began with the election of the Yankee Kuczinsky in April 2016, who was overthrown by a parliamentary coup in the second year of his presidential term, followed by two more parliamentary coups before the 2021 elections. In July 2021, a new government was appointed in reactionary elections by the opportunistic, counterrevolutionary Castillo Terrones, which ended in a self-coup and then a coup d’état by the murderous Dina Boluarte, and on October 10, 2025, a new parliamentary coup d’état led by the president of parliament, José Jerí.
The new parliamentary coup led by the reactionary Jeri is motivated by the need of the reactionary parties, including revisionists and opportunists, to distance themselves from the murderous Dina government, the most reviled reactionary government in the history of the old Peruvian State, in order to gain credit and electoral returns for the April elections.
The coup against Dina Boluarte was already on the reactionary political agenda and that of its revisionist and opportunist servants; it was on the parliamentary agenda of Bolívar’s pigsty, but the day and hour were still to be determined. It needed a pretext as a “just cause,” and this was provided by the recent common crimes (extortion and hired murder) committed against a band of musicians participating in a concert at a military club in the capital city (Lima).
These are just a few issues that we would like to highlight at this time regarding this new change of government through a new parliamentary coup, which is not an anomaly or something unusual, but rather the norm in the development of this fascist, genocidal, and traitorous regime as an expression of the greater decomposition of the old society and the old State, a dictatorship of the big bourgeoisie and landowners at the service of imperialism. As a Peruvian poet pointed out when he heard about the so-called “Arequipa pronouncement” (Odria’s military coup d’état in 1948), “Peru is returning to normality.”
The new government headed by the reactionary Jerí, accused of rape, is just a change of horses in the fascist, genocidal, and traitorous regime. Therefore, this new government will be more hungry, genocidal, and traitorous than the previous one. It will seek to further align its government with the current government of Yankee imperialism, headed by the ultra-reactionary genocidal Trump.
In this situation, the masses are under increasingly urgent pressure 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 large landowners and big mining companies, plus a triple attack from the growing scourge of gangs of common criminals protected by the civil, military, and police authorities of the reactionary State.
Therefore, the current political situation is very bad for the reaction and very good for the revolution. It serves to advance the task of the general reorganization of the party and for a new leap in the incorporation of the masses into the people’s war. To get out of the current impasse and into an active people’s war.
Movimento Popular Perú
October 2025
