Liberal candidate Ronald Acevedo He swept the elections in Pedro Juan Caballero and will be the next mayor of the capital of the department of Amambay. 96.81% of the votes have already been counted. With a percentage of 62.86% of the votes in favor of Acevedo, while his Colorado opponent, Julio Vega, reached 31.36%, leaving Acevedo ahead.
The inhabitants of the city of Pedro Juan Caballero (east) went to the polls this Sunday to elect a new mayor, after an attack that killed the local president last May.
The Superior Court of Electoral Justice (TSJE) indicated that 188 voting tables were set up, to which 74,337 citizens of the capital of the department of Amambay are expected to attend.
The six locations set up for this process, in which 210 voting machines will work, opened their doors at 7:00 local time. The day will end at 5:00 p.m.
This city, with some 140,000 inhabitants, is a neighbor of the Brazilian city of Punta Porá.
The TSJE called, through a resolution last June, new elections after the death, on May 21, of Acevedo, 51 years old.
The deceased mayor, of the opposition Authentic Radical Liberal Party (PLRA), had been shot at on May 17 by a subject who got out of a car and intercepted him in the surroundings of the municipality (town hall) when he was on his way, without an escort, to your vehicle
