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Hugo Meza questioned Cartes’s inner circle and defended Alliana’s decision to define his running mate after the municipal elections
The Colorado lawmaker rejected the idea that Honor Colorado is led without debate and said a sector of governors and legislators does not support Juan Carlos Baruja’s proposal. He also criticized the functioning of the judiciary.
Colorado lawmaker Hugo Meza took aim at the circle around Horacio Cartes amid the internal tensions in Honor Colorado, sparked after the release of a video in which the ANR leader said he was tired of waiting and took for granted the Pedro Alliana-Juan Carlos Baruja ticket for the presidential primaries, according to ABC Color.
Meza said Cartes is accompanied by leaders with no electoral weight and argued that there is a bloc of governors and lawmakers with mobilization capacity that is demanding to be heard. According to ABC Color, the legislator said that sector is united and believes this is not the time to define the ticket, with the municipal elections on October 4 now in focus.
In that context, he backed Pedro Alliana’s position, praising him for distancing himself from a rushed decision and for maintaining that the choice of his running mate should be settled after the municipal elections.
On the possible candidacy of Juan Carlos Baruja, Meza said, according to ABC Color, that it does not have internal backing or generate unity at the grassroots level, and he stressed that the emergence of other alternatives within the space exposes that lack of consensus.
The lawmaker also sought to rebut two ideas about how Honor Colorado operates: that there is no internal debate and that political financing depends almost entirely on Cartes. According to ABC Color, he said there is debate within the movement and stated that party contributions account for only a small share of the total spending borne by candidates. Along those lines, he downplayed the weight of party spending for the municipal elections and said the greatest financial effort falls on local leadership.
In another part of his remarks, Meza referred to the possibility of a political impeachment against members of the Supreme Court of Justice. He said there is no move in that direction from Congress for now, but described the judicial system as corrupt, slow, discredited and detached from the public, again according to ABC Color.
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