Paraguay
Raúl Latorre linked the attack on a candidate in Ypané to damage to the democratic system
The president of the Chamber of Deputies referred to the attack suffered by Gerardo Santiago Fariña and called for action against both the material and intellectual authors. He also said the electoral context makes the case especially sensitive.
Raúl Latorre, president of the Chamber of Deputies of Paraguay, described as an extremely serious event the attack suffered in the early hours of this Wednesday by Gerardo Santiago Fariña, candidate for mayor of Ypané for the Partido Colorado.
According to La Nación Paraguay, the lawmaker described the episode as an attack on democracy and said there is no greater harm to a republican system than trying to take a person’s life or alter an election through homicide.
Latorre called for an investigation that does not stop at those who carried out the attack, but also advances on those who may have ordered it. In that sense, he asked for the intervention of the security forces and the Public Ministry to identify all those responsible.
Regarding the possible background of the case, he said that information still needs to be gathered and that no hypothesis can be ruled out. In any case, according to La Nación Paraguay, he stressed that the episode occurred just days before the municipal elections scheduled for October 4 and said he suspected a political motive, given that it involved a candidate who, he said, had a chance of winning.
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