The candidate of the ruling Colorado Party, Santiago Peña, has become the elected president of Paraguay at dawn this Monday (Spanish time) with 42.93% of the votes over the liberal opposition EfraÃn Alegre (27.52%), according to the provisional results of the Superior Court of Electoral Justice.
With 94.74% of the tables counted and a participation of 63.11%, the electoral body indicated that Peña, former Minister of Finance, and his ticket partner, Pedro Alliana, had added 1,255,104 votes. For its part, Alegre reached 785,338 votes.
“We congratulate the Paraguayan people for their civic maturity and democratic conviction,” TSJE President Jorge BogarÃn said in his speech. The Colorado Party has been in power in Paraguay for seven decades.
