The current Government of Mario Abdo Benítez (2018 – 2023) was the protagonist of the secret bilateral act with Brazil, a document that represented an annual extra cost of US$ 250 million for our country in the contracting of energy from the Itaipu binational.
Analysts affirm that the economic damages for the country due to the election of bad candidates could be very important. However, they warn that the problems may be greater and in other aspects.
BATTER
Marcelo Bater, communicator, affirmed that the election of the bad candidates does not only affect the economy, but also multiple factors.
“The least damage is economic. The biggest is that a tradition of ignorance, lack of culture, corruption and indolence is perpetuated,” he stated.
For the analyst, this question must be divided into two, on the one hand, the potable, wealthy and enlightened candidate, belonging to Asunción and its surroundings, but, on the other hand, there are the candidates from the interior of the country where the mayor or boss (the person who dominates the area), knows who votes for whom, and who will lose their jobs if they lose their votes.
“Bad candidates mean more ignorance, more backwardness, more larceny, more robbery. The poor choice of candidates refers to a single word; education. People who sell their IDs for G. 100,000 are those who cannot look beyond that amount. What you are going to have is five years of misery,” she warned.
He said that in Paraguay many more people vote than those who reside in the corporate hubs of the capital.
“To the extent that the purchase of ID is constant, a life of misery will be perpetuated, where the children go to work wherever they can. Or they will be expelled from the country. Bad candidates imply that people go abroad and also the intelligentsia”, he stated.
He finally pointed out that public education is the only key to reversing this. However, he warns that this is a decades-long problem that will not be solved with a five-year administration.
“People tolerate the G. 3.5 million that deputies receive when they don’t work for three months. It tolerates fuel vouchers for parlasurians who meet only once a year. It is a gentle town. They are a brave people, but when it comes to revealing themselves they do not do it and tolerate the intolerable, ”she concluded.
MARTINEZ
Clara Martínez, political scientist and communicator, affirmed for her part that there is no electoral offer either. With traditional parties that present candidates with a history of corruption.
For the analyst, the electoral offer is not renewed because these people respond to political or economic interests present in their political groups.
“These are people we already know. There is no party renewal. In the games of the third force I do see the appearance of new leaders. But they won’t have the necessary majority if they go alone,” he said.
