First Round: "COLORADO PARTY"
VERSUS
LINO OVIEDO AND UNACE

In a new political movement that surprised powerfully, the Electoral Tribunal of the ANR - REPUBLICAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION -, Colorado Party, excluded of its registrations to 53 former legislators and leaders of this political association that responds to Lino Cesar Oviedo, natural leader of the Movement UNACE - National Union of Ethics Colorados -. As well as Oviedo itself, together with those previous ones, it was excluded of the registrations.
Mr. Bader Rachid Lichi who claims the presidency of the party, had concluded their command in April’99 and therefore, according to the special political situation by which Paraguay suffer, it doesn't summon to internal elections to choose new authorities, Directive Commission and representatives of Auxiliary Organisms. By this way, any resolution or opinion generated by them it lacks validity and it is absolutely null, according to the internal letter that rules this party.
This generated that the Lino Oviedo himself -as President of the UNACE - he had to cross on the step, of such authoritarian and antidemocratic disproportion, with a Statement directed to the whole Movement of Ethicas Colorados and to everyone of the ANR.
Truth is not very difficult to be understanded. According the growing popularity that Lino Oviedo comes accumulating and in face of the possibility of losing again in the internal elections in hands of those that represent the feeling and the working of the Colorado Party (obviously those who follow the line of Oviedo), they have decided to take this chicanery to come undone of its opponents in the internal elections and to leave open the road to present as a "fingered" candidate to somebody who could suit them in the elections for Vice-president next month of August. Likewise this would allow them to continue -to these such people that subscribe to this true ill-treatment in favor of the rights of the members of the party, with the settlements and negotiations with the antidemocratic régime that governs in Paraguay and of which they are supporters and ideologists...