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Historic ANR leaders questioned Peña's government and denounced corruption
Colorado figures known as the “white bears” released a statement with strong criticism of the administration and the party leadership. They also called on voters to back “honest” candidates and those “without ties to colors,” according to ABC Color.
A group of historic leaders of the National Republican Association (ANR), identified as the “white bears,” released a statement in which they launched harsh criticism against the government of Santiago Peña and against the internal situation of the Colorado Party, according to ABC Color.
According to that outlet, the statement says that those who consider themselves part of “historic coloradism” view with concern the manipulation of the party by leaders they accuse of using the political structure as a path to power.
Still according to ABC Color, the signatories upheld a party tradition linked to “principled and doctrinaire coloradism” and said the ANR is going through a stage in which that spirit would be absent.
In the text, the “white bears” repudiated what they defined as an “ideological heresy” and attributed to the current government a picture of a lack of justice, health, education and security. They also denounced the surrender of national sovereignty, the “customary theft from the State,” prevarication, privileges, arrogance, patronage and electoral fraud, always according to the publication.
The statement also appealed to the public to choose the “best formulas” in the upcoming elections, with “honest” and “qualified” candidates, without party ties or ties to what they described as false traditions. The signatories added that the recovery of the identity of the Colorado Party, in their view, depends on taking up the ideology of coloradism again and setting aside the “opportunistic merchants.”
ABC Color indicated that among the signatories are Carlos Romero Pereira, Bernardino Méndez Vall, Hugo Estigarribia Gutiérrez, Adalberto Fox Méndez Paiva, Reinaldo Gómez, Luis Talavera Alegre, Rubén Canatta, Osvaldo Miño, Thiago Brítez, Neri Quintana, Eduardo Martínez Llano and Pablito Aquino.
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