On an election day marked by anticipation, civil engineer Soledad N\u00fa\u00f1ez, representative of the Juntos por Asunci\u00f3n Alliance, has emerged victorious in the Asunci\u00f3n municipal elections. With 99.92% of the polling stations counted, the Preliminary Electoral Results Transmission System (TREP) confirmed that the candidate reached 47.78% of the votes, securing her position as the eighth mayor of the capital.<\/p>\n\n
The contest was extremely close, with N\u00fa\u00f1ez managing to prevail by a narrow margin over his pro-government rival, Camilo P\u00e9rez, who had the backing of the National Republican Association (ANR-Colorado Party) and currently presides over the Paraguayan Olympic Committee.<\/p>\n\n
Asunci\u00f3n voted, Asunci\u00f3n won. Today the people won, today the dream of living in a city that works won, today the will of the people who do not give up won, the people who resist, the people who do not sell themselves.<\/p>Soledad N\u00fa\u00f1ez, mayor-elect of Asunci\u00f3n.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n
A necessary change of command<\/h3>\n\n
N\u00fa\u00f1ez’s arrival at the mayor’s office marks a milestone by displacing the Colorado Party, which has maintained an almost uninterrupted hegemony in public administration for the last 79 years, both in dictatorial and democratic periods. This change occurs after the administration of Luis Bello, who held the position since August 2025 following the resignation of \u00d3scar Rodr\u00edguez, whose administration was subject to an administrative intervention that exposed severe financial illiquidity in the municipality.<\/p>\n\n
Citizen participation and political projection<\/h3>\n\n
The electoral process recorded an increase in citizen participation, reaching 61.75% compared to the 59.65% recorded in the 2021 municipal elections. Likewise, 6,652 blank votes were counted, exceeding the 5,069 reported five years ago.<\/p>\n\n
Political analysts from Alofoke Deportes point out that these results serve as a key thermometer ahead of the 2028 presidential elections. For the ruling party, currently led by President Santiago Pe\u00f1a, the result in the capital represents a significant challenge in its intention to maintain political control of the country in the coming years.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Historic triumph in Asunci\u00f3n: Soledad N\u00fa\u00f1ez dethrones Coloradismo in the Paraguayan capital On an election day marked by anticipation, civil engineer Soledad N\u00fa\u00f1ez, representative of the Juntos por Asunci\u00f3n Alliance, has emerged victorious in the Asunci\u00f3n municipal elections. With 99.92% of the polling stations counted, the Preliminary Electoral Results Transmission System (TREP) confirmed that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[6739,2324,6740,17031],"class_list":{"0":"post-167972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-asuncion","9":"tag-elections","10":"tag-paraguay","11":"tag-soledad-nunez"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}