Peru: new government. Everyone leaves

ByAlberto Giovanelli

Just hours ago the Peruvian political leadership formalized an attempt to channel the crisis that has opened in recent days., appointing Francisco Sagasti as the new President in the transition until the April elections of 2021.
After the dismissal of Martín Vizcarra at the beginning of the previous week, His replacement Manuel Merino had to resign devastated by the popular mobilization. For more than 24 hs. The country did not have formally designated authorities and the appointment of Sagasti is an attempt to try to respond to the demands expressed in the streets and channel, through electoral means, the discontent against the political caste and the demand for “everyone to leave” that has been thundering in every street demonstration.
Apple tree, a center-right engineer, with participation in various governments during the last twenty years, Today he is a congressman for the Purple Party of Julio Guzmán, a businessman presented as a political outsider, who came to the rescue of the "institutionality" due to the dubious prestige gained by being the only party that opposed the dismissal of Vizcarra. The “morada” administration will be accompanied by a wide, varied arch that reaches the Broad Front of the former priest Arana., who complies with giving the center-left tone to the new government. The central task proposed is to stop the mobilizations and ensure that the General Strike announced for next Wednesday does not materialize or at least is channeled only as an expression of protest directed by the old union leaders who have absolutely discredited the mass movement..
For these reasons, from the International Socialist League we insist that working people and youth should not place the slightest trust in the new government., and that only continuity in the streets and the general strike is the guarantee of finding a solution in favor of the great popular majorities. This exit goes hand in hand with the call for a free and sovereign National Constituent Assembly, where it is discussed how to turn everything around, brewing from below, from labor organizations, students and peasants the possibility of those who never governed governing, the workers and the Peruvian people.