José Jerí
José Jerí | |
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Official portrait, 2025 | |
| President of Peru | |
| In office 10 October 2025 – 17 February 2026 | |
| Prime Minister | Eduardo Arana Ysa Ernesto Álvarez Miranda |
| Vice President |
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| Preceded by | Dina Boluarte |
| Succeeded by | José María Balcázar |
| President of Congress | |
| In office 26 July 2025 – 17 February 2026 | |
| Vice President | 1st Vice President Fernando Rospigliosi 2nd Vice President Waldemar Cerrón 3rd Vice President Ilich López |
| Preceded by | Eduardo Salhuana |
| Succeeded by | Fernando Rospigliosi (acting) |
| Member of Congress | |
| Assumed office 17 February 2026 | |
| Constituency | Lima |
| In office 26 July 2021 – 10 October 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Martín Vizcarra |
| Constituency | Lima |
| Personal details | |
| Born | José Enrique Jerí Oré 13 November 1986 Lima, Peru |
| Party | We Are Peru (2014–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Independent (before 2014) |
| Alma mater | |
José Enrique Jerí Oré (born 13 November 1986) is a Peruvian politician and lawyer who served as the president of Peru from 2025 until his removal on 17 February 2026, following the impeachment and removal of his predecessor Dina Boluarte. Prior to assuming the presidency, Jerí was president of the Congress of the Republic from July to October 2025, having been a member of Congress of the Republic representing Lima for the We Are Peru party since 2021. He was the tenth Peruvian president to hold office in less than a decade, and, at the age of 38, the third youngest and the first millennial to serve as President of Peru.
First elected to the Congress of the Republic as an alternate for Martín Vizcarra, who had been disqualified from his seat for allegedly jumping the line to get a COVID-19 vaccine ("Vacunagate"), Jerí held office as a member of the centrist We Are Peru party. On 26 July 2025, he was elected as President of the Congress of the Republic for the 2025–2026 annual session period with the votes of Free Peru, Popular Force, Alliance for Progress, Acción Popular, Avanza País, and We Are Peru.
After the unanimous impeachment and removal of Boluarte on 10 October 2025 amidst the 2025 Peruvian protests, Jerí assumed the presidency in his capacity as head of the legislative branch. In his inaugural speech, Jerí pledged to "install and lead a government of transition, empathy, and national reconciliation", and said that the nation "must declare war on crime".
The Peruvian Congress approved the censuring of Jerí from the position of president of Peru under a vote of no confidence on 12 February 2026. Unlike impeachment, which requires a supermajority of 26 in the 120-member legislature, censuring strips him of his title as head of Congress with a simple majority. His interim status was then used to remove him from the presidency. Jerí became the sixth president removed by Congress after Guillermo Billinghurst (1925), Alberto Fujimori (2001), Martín Vizcarra (2019), Pedro Castillo (2022), and Boluarte (2025). He was the fourth president to be removed in the 2020s.