2023-04-30 23:05:00
Economist Santiago Peña, of the ruling Colorado Partybecame president-elect today with an advantage of more than 15 points over the opposition Efraín Alegre, officially counted 81% of the votes, in an electoral process marked by accusations of corruption against important leaders of the ruling party.
The conservative Peña, 44, ranks first with 44.12% of the votes, compared to Alegre, who with a center-left coalition obtains 27.77%, according to the electoral authority’s scrutiny of 68.74% of the tables.
The president of the Supreme Electoral Court of Paraguay, Jorge Enrique Bogarín González, confirmed tonight the victory of the pro-government candidate Santiago Peña in today’s presidential elections.
Peña, whose party has ruled the country for 70 years with the exception of a brief period between 2008 and 2013, he had promised “more money in the pockets” of Paraguayans by creating jobs and formalizing the economy.
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“We have a lot to do, after the last years of economic stagnation, of fiscal deficit, the task that awaits us is not for a single person or for a party,” Peña said in a speech at the Colorado Party headquarters.
“I call for unity, consensus, the time has come to postpone our differences to prioritize the common causes that unite us as a nation,” He added to the uproar of his followers and the group’s top staff.
The current president of Paraguay, Mario Abdo, had described in a tweet the candidate of the Colorado Party, Santiago Peña, as the “elect president” of the country, before any of the contenders in the general election referred to the results of the elections. .
“Congratulations to the Paraguayan people for their great participation in this election day and to the president-elect @SantiPenap,” Abdo wrote on the social network in reference to Peña. “We will work to start an orderly and transparent transition that will strengthen our institutions and the country’s democracy,” he added.
The Colorado Party has governed Paraguay for most of the last seven decades, under dictatorship and under democracy, with a single interruption during the government of Fernando Lugo (2008-12), who was ousted in impeachment a year before the end of his term.
The Colorado Party “in adversity knows how to overcome obstacles to remain in power,” Roberto Codas, a political and economic analyst at the Business Development consultancy, told AFP. “In this case, ‘Payo’ Cubas helped him, who was left as the third force. He took votes from both groupsbut the most affected were the opponents of the Concertación,” he said.
The electoral campaign took place simultaneously with US sanctions against some of the most important Colorado leaders, such as former president Horacio Cartes (2013-18), a wealthy tobacco businessman, party president and political godfather of Peña. Designated in 2022 as “significantly corrupt” by the State Departmentwhich barred him from entering the United States, was sanctioned in March by the Treasury.
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