00:00In Paraguay, the defeat of the conservative Colorado Party in the municipal elections in Ciudad del Este has redrawn the political map.
00:07Analysts are protecting the end of the Colorado Party's hegemony.
00:11Let's take a closer look in the following work by our colleague Osvaldo Salles.
00:15The mayor of Ciudad del Este, Miguel Prieto, had been removed from office after being persecuted and set up,
00:23which led to early municipal elections in the capital of the Department of Alto Perin.
00:26There, the Colorado Party suffered its worst defeat in history, with a difference of 40%.
00:32The victory in these municipal elections in Ciudad del Este, the second most important city in the country,
00:41by an opposition candidate who had been brutally removed from office by the courts
00:45and who managed to prevail, defeating the Colorado candidates, breathed new life into the Paraguayan opposition.
00:56The Colorado Party sustained the longest military dictatorship in South America
01:03and has governed Paraguay for more than 70 years.
01:06After the last general elections, it moved forward with a process of concentrating power
01:10and abusing institutions without any strong opposition.
01:13The strong impression is that Hugo Karts has preeminence over the government, over the Colorado Party.
01:21The party of Colorado was dissolved without fanfare, and the clearest proof of this is that
01:27Karts and no one else spoke there, apart from blaming each other for the defeat.
01:31A ver si quien es responsable de la derrota.
01:33What began as a political persecution against an opposition mayor, ended up positioning Miguel
01:40Prieto as an emerging figure who is heading straight for a presidential candidacy.
01:44But he did a very good job in Ciudad del Este.
01:49I usually go there to teach and give lectures.
01:51They have electric buses, which Asuncien will never have.
01:54It's not that it will have them later, it won't have them at all.
01:57Asuncien can't even have a metrobus system.
01:59The city is clean.
02:00For political analysts, Miguel Prieto is a leader without a clear ideological definition,
02:08but with positions that place him in favor of the excluded majorities, the popular classes.
02:13In addition, he has a great ability to work with opposition groups.
02:20I believe that they understood that, in a country with such a traditional, conservative
02:24ideological background as Paraguay, it is not such a good idea to hang up a sign that says
02:28I am left-wing.
02:30But I believe that many of his actions and thoughts correspond to progressive policies
02:38that are close to the people.
02:39I believe he is basically a pragmatist.
02:41A one year to go before the municipal elections and just over two years before the general elections,
02:51the sectors that govern Paraguay in favor of only a privileged minority see their continuity
02:56in political power threatened by the emergence of new winds of change.
03:00Osvaldo Sallas, Telesur, Asunción, Paraguay.
03:02So, maybe there is a result in the rationale.
03:05Take care, guys.
03:07Take care.
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