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Lugo Gains Regional Support for Paraguay Presidency in 2018

  • Fernando Lugo was president of Paraguay from 2008 until 2012, when we has ousted in a parliamentary coup.

    Fernando Lugo was president of Paraguay from 2008 until 2012, when we has ousted in a parliamentary coup. | Photo: Reuters

Published 20 October 2016
Opinion

Once impeached by the Senate, Lugo is seeking to reclaim his right as democratically elected leader of Paraguay.

Former ousted president of Paraguay Fernando Lugo received the support of Latin American political parties Thursday for his future presidential campaign.

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The announcement was made at the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean, or COPPPAL, in Mexico City.

"We stand with and support the presidential candidacy of Fernando Lugo, driven from the Front Guasu, which generates significant support and expectations of change in broad sectors of the Paraguayan people," reads the conference resolution.

The same resolution calls on political and judicial authorities in Paraguay "to ensure respect of civil and political rights of all citizens of this country, without prescriptions or anti-democratic resolutions."

Lugo, head of the Front Guasu political alliance, served as Paraguay's president from 2008 until June 22, 2012, when his tenure was prematurely cut short in what most leaders in the region branded a "parliamentary coup."

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Dominated by the Colorado Party, the Senate voted to impeach Lugo using the “Massacre of Curuguaty” as a pretext. The Curuguaty tragedy resulted in the death of 17 people, 11 of whom were campesinos and 6 of whom were police officers. A further 80 people who were wounded. Evidence collected since the Curuguaty incident indicates that the opposition used the event to destabilize Lugo's administration.

Lugo has constantly criticized the current administration of Horacio Cartes as a neoliberal one in favor of the nation's rich minority.

COPPPAL is the largest forum of political parties in the Americas, with 58 parties from 34 countries, and seeks political consensus in establishing strategies and ensuring democracy and social development.

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