Monsignor Mario Melanio Medina denounced that Euclides Acevedo, presidential candidate for the “New Republic” movement, is a “pawn of Chartism” and that this is proven by the simple fact that the presidential candidate avoids questioning Horacio Cartes, former president and current president of the ANR Governing Board, despite having been declared “significantly corrupt” by the US government in July of last year.
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Faced with these questions, Acevedo responded that organized crime has penetrated various sectors, including Chartism. In addition, he warned that if Santiago Peña wins, the one who will truly be in power will be Horacio Cartes.
Regarding the sources of financing for his campaign, he affirmed that all the candidates, both for the Senate, as well as for Deputies and departmental councils, contribute an average of G. 3 million per month, some even do so per week. But despite this, they continue to look for sources of financing.
What do you respond to Monsignor Medina after the criticism?
The statements of Monsignor Mario Melanio Medina, in addition to being misguided, are slanderous and there is nothing worse than intellectual decrepitude and ethical imbalance. But the monsignor, as a good Catholic, has the option of the sacrament of confession. Slander is a sin.
Who finances your campaign?
Linda asks, ask the classmates what poverty we find ourselves in. They finance the compañeros, they finance some friends with their militancy and at this moment we are looking for contributors. Hence, it seems to me a slander that the powers that be are financing us. Monsignor Medina should investigate and find out first before speaking that they are trying to tarnish our honor in this way. We manage with the militancy and the contribution of each one of the companions. Each senator puts up G. 3 million and so do the deputies and the candidates for departmental councillors, etc.
Does each candidate put G. 3 million a month then?
Every month and some do every week.
What do you think of Horacio Cartes?
It is a recurring question, it is a factual, political, fearsome power. More than Cartes is Chartism, which as a policy of takeover attacks democratic institutions.
Does he share the “Significantly Corrupt” designation hanging over him?
It is a definition of the United States. It has the sovereign decision to decide an immigration policy. But I am in favor of Paraguayans having to be prosecuted by their own law in their own land. In Paraguay, no one should be above the law, no one, regardless of who weighs.
If Santiago Peña wins the elections, what Paraguay awaits us?
We do not attack, nor are we against any candidate. We are against what each candidate represents. And if Santiago Peña wins, the model will remain the same. A model against which we are entirely against. And more than once they heard it from me, we don’t want alternation, what we want is a change of structure, therefore, if Mr. Peña or Mr. Alegre wins, it will be more of the same, why? because they seek the continuity of the system. We are against the system.
What do you mean by system?
To the economic model, to the social model. This constitution no longer gives more. It has its expiration period, it is a model that has brought inequality, imbalance and an absolutely degraded policy. We propose a new social pact, a new political pact among Paraguayans that will end with a constitutional reform. How is it possible that this economic model continues to have 800,000 Paraguayans who eat once a day, two million who live in absolute poverty and we only have 7 million inhabitants, do you think that’s fair?
Do you consider that Chartism is related to organized crime?
We believe that organized crime is a factual power that has penetrated the entire society. Not only to Chartism but to other sectors of society, there are businessmen, there are individuals and all kinds of organizations because organized crime does not hide behind just a political movement and organized crime has many connotations, even a culture that must be fought against. to fight tenaciously for this, we place the fight against insecurity as the central platform of our program. The insecurity of the State is not the fight against the motochorro or the crazy horse only, but against those who attempt against the republican institutions.
Do you believe that Santiago Peña is managed by Horacio Cartes?
More than once I said that in Paraguay what happened at 73′ in Argentina is taking place, Argentina 73′, volume 2. Campora to the Government, Perón to power and precisely that which can affect the balance of the republican institutions. Mr. Peña is a very good person but he does not have the autonomy or independence to be able to exercise power.
