More than 2 million poor people, hospitals without doctors or medicines, schools with destroyed classrooms, thousands of settlements in any city or town, millions of displaced persons to other countries. A Nation trapped by corruption and crime will elect its new authorities on April 30. On one side is Santiago Peña, representative of the government party, and on the other is Efraín Alegre, who represents a block of opposition parties and who will seek to come to power after two unsuccessful attempts in 2013 and 2018.
Pilar Callizo, a political analyst and candidate for senator for the National Encounter party, stated that it is very important that in April we reverse the deficiencies in different areas.
“It is a great opportunity that should not be wasted, 70 years of Colorado governments that have led us to a situation like the one we are finding ourselves in. There are deficiencies that I noticed traveling the country. The impotence that one feels is very great because there are so many health needs, in the lack of work, especially for young people, lack of possibilities to access education due to high costs, make a principle of all democracy prevail. what is alternation The alternation is always good, not only for men, but for parties, because that allows us to see how the public situation is, ”he commented.
He pointed out that this model of government has already reached the bottom in the sense that it no longer arouses any hope in the population.
“Many actors speak from the candidacies they present in the Colorado party. But they did nothing while in power. If they really had the intention of doing something, they would have done it when they were in charge of the country, ”he commented.
He warned that our country is going to delve into drug politics, the mafia and corruption if the Colorado party wins the April presidential elections again.
The Colorado party has been in power in Paraguay for seven decades (from 1948 with Juan Manuel Frutos to the present with Mario Abdo Benítez), there was only a brief pause in 2008, when Fernando Lugo, religious leader of an opposition bloc called the “Patriotic Alliance for Change” managed to come to power, but was ousted with just over a year to go due to a political trial carried out by a Colorado majority.
