After the presidential elections in Paraguay, supporters of the defeated candidate Paraguayo Cubas protested against the result. Hundreds of them gathered in front of the elections office in the capital Asuncion yesterday and accused the authorities of voter fraud, the ABC Color newspaper reported. “They stole our election,” Cubas said on radio station Nanduti. The police cordoned off the seat of the electoral office.
In other parts of the South American country, supporters of the opposition politician set up roadblocks. In the election on Sunday, the candidate of the conservative ruling party Partido Colorado, Santiago Pena, was elected the new president.
His party has only lost an election once in the past 76 years. Longtime MP Efrain Alegre of the Radical Liberal Party came in second. Cubas, who presents himself as a critic of the system, reached number three.
