Between the liberal disaster and the old colorado formula

The results of the municipal elections rearranged the political scenario and marked the electoral territories ahead of the presidential challenge of 2023. The political chessboard became feverishly active, but it was in the opposition where a tremor was generated as a result of the good electoral performance of the ANR, which ignored the denunciations of corruption and the application of the new unblocking law. The pre-municipal scenario was already demarcated between Horacio Cartes with his candidate Santiago Peña and, on the opposite side of the street, the Vice President Hugo Velázquez, both united by the straitjacket of the Operación Cicatriz (Operation Scar) whose suture was broken as soon as the electoral contest was over. But among the cartistas there is not much conviction of the duo as they lack the varnish of the pure colorado race (Peña was a liberal and Alliana is accused of being a "encuentrista", part of the Encuentro Nacional party). There are still pending issues, but the main one is how to solve the hatred between Llano and Efraín (which cannot be solved with votes) because as the PLRA is the biggest partner of the opposition, its unresolved division is like the suicide stone. The dynamics of the ANR is the same in every electoral dispute and they win by repeating the same formula, just as the opposition loses by repeating its usual mistakes. ...[Leer más]