installed on September 24, 1919, and was chaired by the sociologist and jurisconsult Mariano H. Cornejo. One of the first tasks of said Assembly was to count the votes of the previous presidential elections, after which it ratified Leguía as the winner, who was proclaimed Constitutional President on October 12, 1919. The Constitution of Peru was subsequently re-written. This second Leguía government would last for eleven years, since, after constitutional reforms, he was re-elected in 1924 and in 1929. That is why it is also known as the Oncenio. During this Eleventh year, the two most important traditional parties, the Civil and the Democratic, ceased to have validity. Only Leguía's allied party, the Constitutional party, led by the aging General Cáceres, remained. He was promoted to the high rank of Grand Marshal, by the Congress. To stay in power, Leguía subdued the press and unleashed a relentless persecution against his political adversaries. On the other hand, he undertook the modernization of Peru, carrying out important and numerous public works. Foundation It was in this context that President Leguía decided to found his own political party, which he called Democrático Reformista, with an initial program, which did not contribute anything apart from what was already said by Leguía in his previous speeches, added to his objective of protecting the indigenous race (which in practice would never be realized during the time that the Oncenio lasted). The party statutes were drawn up by Germán Leguía y Martínez, and were published in the official gazette El Peruano. The first provisional president of the party was Major Esteban Cobilich and incumbent president Guillermo Rey. In 1925, Roberto Leguía, Augusto's brother, assumed the presidency; from that year, until the fall of Leguía in 1930, the members of the Board of Directors remained in their positions. In one of the articles of said Statute it was explicitly stated that the head of the party was Augusto B. Leguía himself, who in practice decided all the actions carried out by the party. Germancism Within leguiísmo, a kind of left wing arose, known as Germancismo, named after meeting around the figure of Germán Leguía y Martínez, the president's cousin, who had been in office since the end of 1919 as Prime Minister and Minister of Government. As such, he had carried out the arduous task of ensuring presidential absolutism, committing a series of outrages: he flouted judicial rulings,