Leftist parties and social organizations to form coalition ahead of elections in Paraguay
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Only 5 days after the Superior Electoral Court of Justice (TSJE) presented the official elections calendar, several Paraguayan parties, among them the Frente Guasú, the Movimiento al Socialismo and the Paraguay Pyahurã, committed to a common project for the upcoming elections.
Former president of Paraguay and current senator and leader of Frente Guaisú Fernando Lugo said that with this potential left-wing coalition, the country “will no longer be an agribusiness of soybean growers, financiers, drug traffickers or money launderers.”
“They wanted to bury us in 2012. Then came the triumph of Luis (Arce) in Bolivia, of Alberto (Fernández) in Argentina, yesterday of Gabriel (Boric) in Chile, next year it will be of Lula (da Silva) in Brazil. We have no doubt about Colombia next year, of (Pedro) Castillo in Peru,” Lugo assured.
In the meeting, named “Ñemongeta,” Senator Carlos Filizzola assured that this left-wing consolidation process is only the beginning and that “others will join.”
“Enough of evicting peasants and indigenous people, enough of criminalizing the social struggle,” Filizzola argued, referring to the Paraguayan indigenous community. He added that “the model (of a country) that oppresses a people and privileges a few involved in corruption, impunity and drug trafficking cannot continue.”
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