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Tuesday, April 29, 2003
No power shift after
Paraguay elections
By Eduardo Gallardo
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ASUNCION, Paraguay —
Colorado Party leader Nicanor
Duarte extended his party’s 55-
year grip on power, winning a
presidential election by handily
defeating two challengers seek
ing to tap building anger over
the country’s deepening eco
nomic crisis.
The Colorados have dominat
ed the politics in this South
American nation of 5.5 million
people since 1947, governing
both in times of dictatorship and
civilian rule.
With 92 percent of the bal
lots counted from 8,400 polling
stations nationwide, Paraguay’s
Electoral Court said Duarte
garnered just over 37 percent of
the vote.
Second place went to opposi
tion leader Julio Cesar Franco of
the Authentic Radical Liberal
Party with nearly 24 percent
while Pedro Falud, a wealthy
banker and independent founder
of the Beloved Fatherland
movement, placed third with
nearly 23 percent.
Duarte, a 46-year-old lawyer
and former sportscaster, vowed
to help workers and the poor and
appealed to opposition leaders to
join him in a national unity gov
ernment to confront the growing
financial turmoil.
In a victory speech, Duarte
sought to leave behind the often
combative tone of the cam
paign, praising his challengers’
efforts in what was the strongest
opposition showing in Paraguay
in decades.
He even invited Franco to
consider a post in his govern
ment, calling the challenges it
faces “a great task of national,
political and economic recon-
Paraguay
elects
Colorado Party
veteran Nicanor
Duarte defeated
two challengers
in Paraguay's Nicanor Duarte
presidential
election on Sunday, keeping the
party’s half-century grip on power.
With 82 percent of the ballot counted
Others 17 %
Nicanor
Duarte
Colorado
Party 38 %
Pedro Falud Julio Cesar
Independent Franco
22 % Authentic Radical
Liberal Party 23 %
SOURCE: Associated Press AP
struction.” Franco quickly reject
ed the invitation saying he will
remain his position to foster
“constructive opposition.”
Alternating between Spanish
and Guarani, the language of the
Paraguayan indigenous popula
tion, Duarte addressed hundreds
of cheering supporters celebrat
ing his victory.
“We need unity,” he said. “I
call upon our opponents to build
an intelligent opposition, so they
can become an effective alterna
tive to power.”
He vowed to combat the ram
pant corruption that has plagued
Paraguay for decades. He
announced a full reorganization
of the customs and internal rev
enue services, two well-known
corruption sources.
Duarte succeeds Luis
Gonzalez Macchi for a five-year
term beginning Aug. 15, but the
incumbent — dogged by critics
over his failure to revive the
economy — has hinted he might
leave office early to allow a new
government take over.
Gonzalez Macchi was
appointed by the Senate four
years ago after Raul Cubas
resigned. Cubas stepped down
after his vice president was
assassinated, provoking bloody
street protests. Gonzalez Macchi
himself barely survived an
impeachment attempt last
February by a Congress that
accused him of corruption —
charges he denied.
Since the 30-year military
dictatorship of Gen. Alfredo
Stroessner ended in 1989,
Paraguay’s fledgling democracy
has stumbled through political
crises, coup attempts and assas
sinations.
Duarte flatly rejected accusa
tions from his critics that he
plans to privatize state-owned
companies as a way to generate
income for a government on the
verge of bankruptcy.
“There is no way we are
going to auction the assets of the
fatherland,” he said. “We are not
going to give away a single piece
of the national patrimony.”
Instead, he said his govern
ment will seek to renegotiate
payments on the country’s $2.2
billion foreign debt and seek
$500 million in loans from
international lenders to finance
a new highway construction
program.
Duarte will face a daunting
task after his inauguration on
Aug. 15.
More than one of three
Paraguayans lives in poverty.
The government puts unemploy
ment at 18 percent, but experts
say it’s closer to 35 percent. The
government, virtually broke, has
scrambled to pay civil servant
salaries. Only Bolivia is poorer
in South America.
New astronauts board space
station, prepare for hand-over
By Sarah Karush
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KOROLYOV, Russia — The three residents of
the international space station welcomed two new
comers who floated aboard Monday, the start of a
five-day hand-over fraught with new challenges in
the wake of the Columbia shuttle disaster.
U.S. astronauts Kenneth Bowersox and Donald
Pettit and Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin
welcomed American Edward Lu and Russian Yuri
Malenchenko aboard the space station after their
Soyuz TMA-2 capsule docked.
The crew will show Lu and Malenchenko
around the station — much changed since the two
were there in 2000 — and update their own
knowledge of the Russian Soyuz, which they will
use to return to Earth on Saturday.
Originally, they were to return in the Atlantis,
but the U.S. shuttle fleet has been grounded since
the Columbia disintegrated during re-entry on
Feb. 1, killing all seven people aboard.
At Mission Control outside Moscow, relatives
and flight controllers applauded when the Soyuz
docked with the station about 250 miles above
the Earth.
“I am just so happy and proud to see everything
work out so well,” said Lu’s mother, Snowlily.
His fiancee, Christine Romero, also was
among those watching the docking.
“Everyone is proud — not just for what Ed is
doing, but for NASA and the international space
station and for the space program as a whole,
especially after the Columbia,” she said.
All five men crowded together for a videolink
with Mission Control. They grinned as NASA and
Russian space officials congratulated them.
“We’re very, very proud today at the work of
our international team,” Bowersox said.
Malenchenko said the outpost has grown since
he was there.
“It has become so big and beautiful,” he said.
“We are very glad to be here, very glad to see
our friends.”
He and Lu blasted off Saturday from Russia’s
Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on their
way to the $60 billion station.
Frederick Gregory, deputy administrator of
NASA, said the international space station part
nership has demonstrated its ability to overcome
“any obstacle on this road to the future.”
As the investigation into the Columbia disaster
continues, it is not clear when U.S. shuttle flights
will resume.
The Russian Soyuz became the only ship capa
ble of carrying crews to and from the space outpost,
giving it a vital role in keeping the station manned.
The Soyuz trip was put together in record time.
Maintaining a manned presence on the space
station and keeping it in good condition is vital
until shuttle flights resume, at which point work
on building and developing the station can contin
ue, Gregory said.
Saturday’s flight to Earth, meanwhile, will be
the first time U.S. astronauts have returned in a
Soyuz. Bowersox, Pettit and Budarin are familiar
with the technology, since a Soyuz is always kept
at the station as a lifeboat.
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