Elections 2026: The parties that propose to destabilize the country with the story of the new Constitution

Five left-wing groups, one center-left and another populist, have once again raised the slogan of a “new Constitution.” All of them are united by a plan of marked radicalism.

Not only Together for Peru is the surrogate womb of Pedro Castillo and his former allies to take over the next bicameral Parliament or reach the Presidency. Find out what other groups would be part of this strategy.

This proposal was already the central axis of the campaign of Pedro Castillo and his allies during the 2021 elections.

However, specialists have warned about the economic and legal risks that a constitutional change would imply.

Despite this, these parties insist on reactivating this dangerous and anachronistic agenda (see plans).

We will win and your dangerous plan

In his government plan, the objective is stated unambiguously: to promote a new Constitution.

The leftist alliance we will winmade up of two groups linked to Castilismo – Nuevo Perú and Voces del Pueblo -, has already defined the way in which it seeks to call a constitutional referendum without a prior constitutional reform.

Previously, that same coalition had Guillermo Bermejo, currently imprisoned for affiliation with terrorism, as its pre-candidate for the presidential nomination.

Venceremos Government Plan clearly proposes a new Magna Carta.

Currently, with Ronald Atencio As a candidate for the Presidency, he proposes an interpretation of article 32 of the Constitution to call a referendum for total reform.

However, specialists such as constitutionalist Erick Urbina warn that this provision allows the Magna Carta to be reformed, but not to draft a new one.

What is the route? We asked the Senate candidate for Venceremos, Aida García Naranjo. “We want legislative powers to modify Law 26300, which regulates the rights of citizen participation and control, and that the president of the republic be empowered to consult the population on issues of national interest, the result of which is mandatory,” he said.

Likewise, he explained that, once this modification was made, a popular consultation would be called and, if an affirmative response was obtained, it would force Congress to modify the constitutional text to convene a constituent assembly.

In parallel, they propose repealing the law that limits the referendum.

The reason? According to García Naranjo, the rule requires 2,700,000 signatures to call it, which makes it practically unviable. Once that requirement was repealed, the popular consultation could be carried out, he stated.

NAPOLEÓN BECERRA, ALFONSO LÓPEZ CHAU AND JOSÉ LUNA. His proposals for a new Constitution do not appear in the Government plan.

Now Nation: hidden proposal

The center-left party Now Nationwho is running for the Presidency Alfonso López Chau —who in the 80s He called the terrorist leader of the MRTA, Víctor Polay, a “political and social fighter”—, does not openly present its intention to change the Magna Carta, as Venceremos does.

However, this proposal is presented in an underhanded manner.

Government Plan of Now Nation: the proposal for a New Constitution does not appear, but it does appear in the document titled Political Program (below).

Proof of this is that this initiative does not appear in its government plan – published by the National Elections Jury (JNE) – although it does appear in a different document titled Political Program 2026-2031.

In the second point of that text, the party explicitly states its objective, which it calls “New Constitution of National Unity.”

In this regard, the candidate for deputy for Lima Carlo Magno Salcedo pointed out that López Chau does not propose a return to the 1979 Constitution, but rather rescues from it “that it was an authentic social contract, the result of the consensus of all political forces”, unlike – he said – the Magna Carta of 1993.

Likewise, he indicated that his group’s constitutional proposal is based on four axes, among them the review of the economic chapter under a national and social market economy model.

We can: opportunistic offer

As in the case of Ahora Nación, the proposal for a new Constitution of the populist party Podemos does not appear explicitly in its government plan.

However, presidential candidate José Luna—whose party is running for the Senate Betssy Chino, the mother of the former Castilla Prime Minister Betssy Chávez, who is sheltered in the Mexican embassy—announced her during the presentation of his presidential plan in Cusco, on November 27.

On that occasion, he made public his adherence to the agenda of the radical left by stating: “We will change the Constitution to achieve a true reform of the pension system that provides decent pensions to everyone, formal and informal workers.”

José Luna is not transparent with voters: he has not included his populist offer to “change” the current Constitution in his government plan, but he does spread it on his social networks (below).

Podemos Peru government plan: There is also no proposal for a New Constitution.

In this regard, the candidate for the second vice presidency and the Senate, Raúl Noblecilla, assured this medium that it is indeed a partisan proposal. “If not, I wouldn’t be here,” he said.

In this context, Senate candidate Jorge Paredes Terry announced that one of the points to modify would be the economic chapter, especially what refers to “monopolies, oligopolies and legal contracts.”

JP: the old Castilian slogan

They are not the creators of this proposal, but they are the ones who make the most noise around it.

The party of the provincial left and the cones of Lima, Together for Peruassumed the agenda started by Ollanta Humala in 2006 – the former president who, like Pedro Castillo, is imprisoned in the Barbadillo prison – and has also become a Castilista-line group.

VLADIMIR CERRÓN, YONHY LESCANO, RONALD ATENCIO AND ROBERTO SÁNCHEZ. They have stated, without fear, their dangerous agenda in the government plan.

Together for Peru dusts off the Castilian agenda in its government plan.

The reason? Not only for nominating Pedro Castillo’s relatives to the bicameral Congress – his brothers José Carmen Castillo (senator) and Irma Castillo (deputy), his nephew Cledin Vásquez (deputy) and his sister-in-law Yenifer Paredes (deputy) – but also because the coup professor – linked to Movadef in the past – maintains influence in the organization from prison.

In his government plan, J.P.whose presidential candidate is the congressman and former minister of Professor Chotano, Roberto Sanchezdetails his intention to promote a new Constitution that reflects a “true democratic and popular spirit.”

Peru Libre: economic change

Perú Libre once again includes in its Government plan, just as it did in 2021, when it nominated the coup professor for the Presidency, the proposal to modify the Magna Carta under the label of “Refoundation of the State and New Constitution.”

Government plan of the pencil party: former ally of Pedro Castillo continues with the old 2021 agenda.

The Marxist-Leninist-Mariateguist group, which has the fugitive Vladimir Cerrón as a candidate for the House of Pizarro, proposes that a new Constitution contemplate the total elimination of “neoliberal constitutional locks” before 2030, the review of 100% of the strategic contracts considered harmful to the State and the increase of state participation in key strategic sectors.

Popular Cooperation and PTE: the same script

This group of parties identified by Perú21 is closed by the left-wing group Popular Cooperation, which has Yonhy Lescano as its presidential leader and proposes a new Constitution via the Constituent Assembly, mainly “in matters of rights and economy.”

Popular Cooperation government plan.

Finally, the Workers and Entrepreneurs Party (PTE), which has Napoleón Becerra as its candidate for the House of Pizarro, proposes in its statute—and not in its government plan—to “refound the Bicentennial Republic,” an objective that, according to Becerra himself, can only be achieved through a new Constitution.

It is, without a doubt, the chronicle of an announced radical coalition, which could be articulated in the next bicameral Congress if it manages to obtain seats and overcome the electoral hurdle. And it would do so under an old script, with potential high-cost economic and legal consequences for the country.

The PTE’s government plan does not explicitly include its radical proposal to change the current Constitution. However, its statute raises the idea of “refounding” the country, which, according to its presidential candidate Napoleón Becerra, implies the development of a new Constitution (see below).

“It is dangerous and opportunistic”

The risks of a New Constitution, according to constitutionalist Erick Urbina and political analyst Luis Benavente.

The constitutionalist Erick Urbina explained to Perú21 that “it is dangerous and opportunistic” to want to change the constitution, and he specified that to do so there would have to be a reform that allows calling a referendum for a new Constitution because the current Constitution only allows a referendum for a total or partial reform.

According to Urbina, the TC explains that the total reform of the Constitution through a referendum “is not changing the Constitution, but rather touching the hard core, such as the form of government.”

“For example, if Congress wants to change the Constitution so that we become a monarchy, there we would talk about a total reform, but the Constitution of ’93 would follow,” he said.

For his part, political analyst Luis Benavente warned that left-wing groups seeking a new Magna Carta not only seek the legal and economic destabilization of the country but also “destruction.”

“(They seek to do so) under the pretext of destroying a State to create a new State that is supposedly more just and free, and we know that this is false… These orthodox Marxists act under economic interests,” he concluded.

PLEASE NOTE

Neither for nor against. The Primero La Gente party reported that it does not have a proposal to accept or reject a new Constitution because that depends on a broad debate.
Just renovations. The Purple Party and Apra are in favor of only reforms. “A new Constitution is necessary, but at this moment we are leaning towards a reform with a referendum,” said PM presidential candidate Mesías Guevara.
29 December 1993, after a referendum held in October of that year, the current Constitution was promulgated.
“The new Constitution (they seek) is to enshrine a statist regime in the economy, and the monopoly of political power,” said political analyst Luis Benavente.