Asuncion, April 15. The former president and current Paraguayan senator Fernando Lugo received this Saturday the former Uruguayan president José ‘Pepe’ Mujica (2010-2015) at his residence in Paraguay, where he continues with the rehabilitation process after the stroke he suffered in August of last year.
The former Paraguayan ruler (2008-2012) published on his Twitter account some photographs at his home in the town of Lambaré, a neighbor of Asunción, together with Mujica and the main opposition candidate for the Presidency, Efraín Alegre.
“I appreciate the visit of my colleague Pepe Mujica and my friend Efrain Alegre. I reaffirm my commitment to change,” the publication reads.
Mujica participated this Saturday in an event with Paraguayan youth as part of Alegre’s presidential campaign, organized by the opposition alliance Concertación Nacional.
The Uruguayan left leader was one of the figures who visited Lugo in a clinic in Buenos Aires, where he was hospitalized for five months completing a rehabilitation, as revealed by Senator Esperanza Martínez to Radio 780 last November.
Lugo was the first president with whom Mujica met after winning the general elections in Uruguay in 2009. That meeting took place in a hotel in Montevideo on the eve of the Summit of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur).
The congressman heads the list of candidates for the Senate for the leftist alliance Frente Guasu Ñemongeta (AFGÑ) for the general elections next April.
With his electoral victory in 2008, Lugo, who was a Catholic bishop, put an end to 61 years of hegemony of the Colorado Party.
He was unable to complete his period of government, due to a controversial parliamentary trial that ousted him from power in June 2012. EFE
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