Santiago Llano, husband of Andrea Zuccolillo (left), and brother-in-law of Natalia Zuccolillo (right), director of the newspaper Abc, is one of the organizers of the presidential debate that ignored other candidates
After the announcement of the suspension of the presidential debate, due to the refusal to include more than two candidates, the identities of those who were behind the event began to appear, including Zuccolillo’s brother-in-law and director of Atlas, as well as a member of the National Agreement.
Santiago Llano Cavina, husband of Andrea Zuccolilloyounger sister of Natalia, director of Abc Color, is dDirector of the Azeta group and First Vice President of Banco Atlas.
Llano Cavina is one of those is part of the group of organizers of the presidential debatesuspended because they refused to invite a third or fourth presidential candidate to participate.
This same man was found guilty of a suspicious maneuver in a trust agreement between Banco Atlas and the company Emprendimiento Urunaga in 2018, according to the Central Bank of Paraguay (BCP).
For his part, Raul Ayala Diarteanother of the organizers, is a member of the Board of Directors of the NGO Horizonte Positivo, Despertar and Dende, which are also institutions within the so-called “Presidential Debate Committee”.
tell you he is a member of the National Concertation and openly supports the Alegre-Núñez duo. In fact, this bias is not new, since it isIn 2012, he had also declared his accompaniment to Efraín Alegre.
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Ten years laterIn 2022, he signed an electoral alliance as a representative of Despertar, along with Kattya González and Soledad Núñez.
Paraguayan Cubas He criticized the organization of the presidential debate, for taking into account only two candidates and excluding the rest.
for his partEuclides Acevedo, also questioned the exclusion. “Let the Dende stop fucking around, they only invite two candidates to debate, that’s not right, of course we’ll be there if they invite us,” she said.
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Grief confirmed their participation, but requested that Euclides Acevedo and Paraguayo Cubas also be included, that is, four in total. “I asked for a debate in which at least the four best positioned candidates participate. There is no reason to hide them. We have to build Paraguay together, ”Peña wrote on her Twitter account.
In some departments, these candidates surpass the intention of the PLRA in votes, however, they were not taken into account to expose their proposals on television.
Upon receiving Peña’s approach, the Committee automatically resolved to suspend the debate, without explaining what would be the inconvenience so that the other two presidential candidates also have a chance.
