2023-05-02 00:06:44
Former Governor and Senator Fernando Lugo might not revalidate his position in the Upper Chamber of the Paraguayan Senate and his left-wing alliance, the Guasu Front, barely reached a quota for the next legislative periodfollowing knowing the provisional results of the general elections held this Sunday.
In these elections, the Colorado Party candidate, Santiago Peña, was the clear winnerwith 42.93%, which translates into 17 points above his main opponent, the liberal Efrain Alegre (27.52%)according to the provisional results provided by the Superior Court of Electoral Justice.
In that context, Senator Esperanza Martínez will be the only representation of the left in a Senate consolidated by the ruling Colorado Partythat for for the first time in history it will have its own majority in the Upper House.
This because got 23 seats, five more than the ones it had up to now, enough strength to approve or reject projectsincluding sanctioning or dismissing deputies.
The detail of the choice
Total, more than 3 million voters chose the new representatives of the Senateof which a 43.68% will be members of the ruling party, 23.27% will be represented by the Alianza de Senadores por la Patriay 11% for the National Crusade Partyled by the Paraguayan anti-system leader Cubas.
will be five congressmen for National Crusadewho managed to gather more than 330,000 votes.
Among the elected candidates is Cubas’s wife, Yolanda Paredes, who added the largest number of votes (140,921) within her political movement.
Another chosen member of the movement led by Cubas is the activist Rafael Esquivel, who was accused of the alleged sexual abuse of a teenager in 2019 and who is being held in a prison in the border city of Ciudad del Este.
Representatives were also re-elected as Kattya González, one of the voices most critical of corruption and once morest the ruling Colorado Party, and Celeste Amarillafrom the National Meeting and Senators for the Homeland alliances, respectively.
The candidate most voted was the official Silvio Ovelar, with 281,752 voteswho will assume his fifth term as parliamentarian of the Upper House.
Pro-government majority in the Chamber of Deputies
In the Chamber of Deputies the official majority also prevailedwith 48 benches, five more than the ones it had until yesterday.
The youth of non-traditional parties is the novelty in this electionwith the entry of Johanna Ortega, from the País Solidario movement, and Rubén Rubín and Raulito Benítez, from Encuentro Nacional.
Liberal MPs they lost eight seats and were left with 21 representatives for the next legislative period.
The new representatives of the Paraguayan Congress They will take office on July 1..
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