Paraguayan Election Forecast Shows Fraud On the Horizon

[Joanne98]

What we are sure about, is that there is going to be fraud, in the multitude of diverse ways that the history of this country has taught,” said Juan Jose Dominguez, Uruguayan member of the MERCOSUR Parliament for the Frente Amplio coalition, and international election observer in Paraguay for this Sunday’s elections.

“(Fernando) Lugo told us in the press conference, that when his family was in the Colorado party, they took them- the Colorados - and gave them courses on how to commit fraud. He was Colorado. My entire family, he said, went to learn how to commit fraud, even though in this era they didn’t even need it. But now, they’re going to need it,” continued Dominquez this morning before a small room of press and international observers at the Paraguayan Press Union (SPP) in Asuncion.

“(But), you can mitigate the effect of the fraud by calling for massive voting,” responded Ana Juanche, Latin American Coordinator for Service Peace and Justice in Latin America (SERPAJ-AL), who is also observing tomorrow’s elections.
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[Peace Patriot]

1. I made some comments on this subject in your other thread...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x353917

Lugo has been way ahead in the polls all along, and it will be very bad for Paraguay--which is surrounded by democratic populist governments--if the rightwing Colorado Party is perceived as stealing the election. It's a new day in South America. Election theft will be noticed, and it will damage Paraguay's great need for regional economic integration. Not to say they won't do it. They probably will--or will try anyway. That is their M.O. (like their Bush-U.S. ally). But the leftist tide is so overwhelming in South America, fraud will earn them nothing but trouble, within and without.