The old tweets about “sex” and “women” by the new interim president of Peru, the right-wing José Jerí, went viral this Friday on social networks just twelve hours after taking office, when until a few weeks ago he was being investigated for a complaint of sexual rape that the Prosecutor’s Office recently filed for lack of evidence.
Turned into the night of last Thursday in the seventh president of Peru In just nine years after succeeding the dismissed president Dina Boluarte for holding the Presidency of Congress, the 38-year-old parliamentarian from the Somos Perú party saw X messages that he published on his profile more than 10 years ago recirculate, some with a sexist nature.
“The women They are seduced with love, affection and respect. For all the others there is Mastercard,” Jerí said in a tweet published in 2011, while in 2013 he shared an article from a web portal of a supposed scientific study where it was concluded that “sex causes new neurons to be produced” and a year later “‘sapiosexuality’, the new trend in sex.”
The speed of the dismissal to which Boluarte was subjected and the immediate ascension to the presidential seat of Jerí meant that the new Peruvian president, a lawyer by profession, was unable to delete the messages from his X profile, where he defines himself as an animalist.
The salchipapa and the diners
“A pretty woman who smokes is doubly pretty”expressed Jerí in 2012, the same year in which he stated that “the salchipapa is not as appetizing as the diners.” “What I like most about any children’s party, the entertainers! They are charming!”, noted the now head of State in 2013, as well as that “no one can handle an intelligent and attractive woman, even if it is the security of Congress” (2015). “The Italian golden girls from Rustica are stunning! I better go to Italy! Mamma mia!” commented the new ruler in 2014 about some models of a well-known Peruvian restaurant chain.
In that year he also declared himself “more pained than a man abused by a jealous woman. Immobile.” “The best thing about Peña Nieto is Angélica Rivera. A woman like that by your side inspires,” he also wrote in 2014 in reference to the then president of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto and his ex-partner. Also on Instagram, users have reported that Jerí aHe used to follow models as well as the account of a well-known international pornography production company..
Reported for rape
In response to these messages, users of the platform responded with hate messages, messages where they nicknamed him “Pa-Jerí”, and images and emoticons of violins, in reference to the rape complaint that he faced at the beginning of this year 2025 and that it was archived in the month of August, due to lack of evidence that directly linked it to the crime. In the complaint, Jerí and another man were denounced by a woman who stated having suffered a sexual attack at a social gathering which the legislator attended on December 29, 2024 in the district of Canta, northeast of Lima.
From the beginning, Jerí rejected any type of participation in the reported events and offered his collaboration in the investigations until it was archived in August.
“Impulsivity and pathological sexual behavior”
After the accusations, and before the filing of the complaint in favor of Jerí, the Civil Court of Canta ordered the submission of the now president to psychological treatment for “impulsivity and pathological sexual behavior”, based on a psychological reportaccording to what was reported by local media. Despite the obligation to attend the sessions, the parliamentarian failed to comply with the order, being investigated, as appropriate in the Peruvian penal code, for disobedience to authority. After approving with 122 votes in favor of the “permanent moral incapacity” of the now former president, Jerí suddenly became the highest authority of the State despite the fact that she did not obtain a seat in Parliament in the 2021 elections, where she obtained 11,000 votes, and entered as a substitute in place of the disqualified former president Martín Vizcarra (2018-2020).