Weekly Report - 20 June 2024 (WR-24-24)

The most outspoken critic of alleged corruption and impunity in Paraguay received a boost in her bid to regain her senate seat this week. Before her ejection from the senate in February by the ruling party, opposition senator Kattya González was a vocal critic of former president Horacio Cartes (2013-2018), the tobacco tycoon and party president of the ruling Asociación Nacional Republicana-Partido Colorado (ANR-PC), which has a majority in both chambers of congress. The acting attorney general this week recommended that the supreme court rule on the legitimacy of the vote to strip González of her seat.

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