From the VOA:
Opposition candidate Fernando Lugo has won Paraguay’s presidential election, ending six decades of one-party rule.
Ruling party candidate Blanca Ovelar conceded defeat Sunday night. With about 70 percent of the polling sites counted, Lugo was leading Ovelar 40 to 32 percent. Retired General Lino Oviedo had 22 percent of the vote.
Lugo is a former Roman Catholic bishop who heads a center-left coalition that includes the main opposition party, trade unions, farm groups and Indians. They call themselves the Patriotic Alliance for Change.
Lugo, once called the bishop of the poor, vowed to help Paraguay’s poor and indigenous people. He grew up in southern Paraguay, was ordained into the priesthood in 1977, and went into politics in 2006. Read more….
According to the CIA Factbook, Paraguay has 6.8 million people, a land mass of 156,757 square miles, and 95% of the population is mestizo. Paraguay itself is a landlocked country.
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