On December 18, the candidates for the Presidency of the Republic will be defined and, according to analysts, the contest in the red political arena will be close.
Selva Castiñeira, a political scientist, affirmed that the only tool they have to carry out an analysis at the positioning level are the surveys. Although most sectors of the press do not give much credit to this type of poll.
“At first, what I notice is that the ANR interns will be quite close and fought. They are much more fought over and much more worked by the parties. Everyone is playing the race as fast as they can because it’s like the filter to get to the generals and whoever comes in second is out,” he said.
For the analyst, in the ANR presidential elections, the two main candidates such as Santiago Peña and Arnoldo Wiens will arrive with just enough.
“Peña stagnated a bit and Wiens picked up a bit, it’s like Wiens accelerated his process of winning votes and apparently, Peña remained static. I notice that in 15 days he will be quite close, especially regarding the ANR ”.
Regarding the Concertación, he affirmed that the Efraín Alegre duo with Soledad Núñez has everything to win.
STIGARRIBIA
Hugo Estigarribia, former senator for the ANR and constitutional lawyer, argued that Peña had many years of campaigning and that this favors him but the dependence on Cartes harms him.
“It facilitates the years of dependency but on the other hand, the image of Cartes’s dependent hurts him. Wiens has little time but he has the weight of the ruling party and the allegations of corruption that weigh on him. There are two apparatuses, on the one hand the power of Cartes’ money and part of the state apparatus and on the other hand the State, plus the party tradition that accompanies Abdo’s management, ”he pointed out.
He maintained that it will be a head-to-head final and “D” day will be key in terms of the work that both candidates will carry out.
“The ruling party has always lost but in this context it is different because the contender has many charges such as complaints and his candidate is not authentically red either,” he said.
Regarding the Concertación, he affirmed that the Alegre has the structure of the liberal party. So it is very difficult for him to lose in the internal ones.
“However, it failed to unite the entire Concertación, Paraguayo Cubas, Euclides Acevedo and José Luis Chilavert. In addition, with the incorporation of Soledad Núñez, Alegre’s anti-Chartist discourse lost strength ”, he affirmed.
MARTINEZ
Clara Martínez, a political scientist, expressed for her part that for her the Red inmates are very close.
“There is talk of a technical draw, there is talk of a technical draw in record time Wiens is growing progressively. The red inmates are going to define the ‘D’ day. We must also consider that the structures weigh in the elections. There are two candidates who are very strong, ”he commented.
Regarding the Concertación, he affirms that Efraín Alegre is much better in the polls.
“He is measuring quite well in the polls. You have to see the participation of that day because the structure weighs a lot. The party structure is held by Efraín Alegre, so he would have a certain advantage. You have to consider that Alegre was operating very strongly from the beginning”, he stated.
