The Colorado Party lost Ciudad del Este for the first time in the elections with incidents | Chronic

The Colorado party, which heads Paraguay, lost Sunday the city of Ciudad del Este, the second largest city in the country, during elections punctuated by accusations of fraud, fights between political leaders and politicians. other incidents. Miguel Prieto, of the Movement for Eastern Democratic Consciousness (MCDE), won 44.63% of the vote and became the first undocumented mayor of the neighboring city of Argentina and Brazil, the ABC Color newspaper reported.

"Congratulations to Miguel Prieto, the new mayor of Ciudad del Este, elected during the democratic elections, who has been very successful in his duties, he has all our support for his management", the president greeted him Mario Abdo Benítez via Twitter. In second place was the red Wilberto Cabañas, with 39.29% of the votes.

Prieto will complete until 2020 the period of government initiated by Sandra McLeod from Zacarías, dismissed last February by the Chamber of Deputies for irregularities detected as a result of federal intervention in the municipality. While polling stations were still open, Prieto posted marked votes in favor of Cabañas and said they had been given to some voters of the Regional Education Center by an unidentified woman.

"It is shameful that the prosecutor 's office is acting, we do not feel absolutely protected by the police who, instead of arresting this woman, as the law says, has protected and l'. let out escape "said the senator Georgia Nani Arrúa, of the Patria Querida party (PPQ). Also at the Paraguayan soldiers' school, marked ballots were found in favor of Cabañas and prosecutor Zunilda Ocampos intervened.

The newspaper Última Hora reported that the prosecutor's office was investigating two other similar incidents, while Cabañas said he was unaware of these facts and added that anyone with something to report should provide the corresponding evidence to the authorities. On the other hand, the advisor Celso Miranda He threw water in the face and tried to hit the senator Cubas Paraguayans while he was talking to reporters, people at that location threw water and a belt in Miranda's face.