June 13, 2026 at – 11:01
For the Colorado deputy Daniel Centurión (Añetete), the electoral defeat of the Colorado dissidence in Asunción was due to a late alliance between the candidates and the absence of a dialectical confrontation that would offer an option other than Chartism. “At the polls the voter found two similar options, there was a lack of confrontation of ideas,” said the parliamentarian.
The deputy Daniel Centurión (ANR-Añetete) He stated that he felt frustrated after the defeat of Arnaldo Samaniego in front of the Chartist Camilo Perez in the internal of the Colorado Party, but that was already seen coming because there was a lack of a confrontation of ideas clear to offer a different option to the Colorado electorate.
“In the Capital, unity was important and it was taken to the extreme at the last minute, which greatly weakened the possibility of strong cohesion. Citizens could not perceive a direct confrontationthere was no confrontation of ideas with the ruling party so that the citizens understood. There were two options with similar definitions,” said the dissident deputy. Daniel Centurion.
Although he did not say directly, Daniel Centurion he did imply that Arnaldo Samaniego He lacked a more forceful stance against the municipal management of Chartism in the Municipality of Asunción.
“We are children of rigor and sacrifice, as Augusto Roa Bastos said. In Asunción, several factors are assessed that finally ended with that result that we already envisioned because that space of confrontation was not filled when I declined in favor of Arnaldo,” said Centurión.
He stated that Chartism has a very triumphalist stance after the elections of the last June 7who although he recognized that the victory was evident throughout the country, said that the ruling party does not stop to look the number of votes that the red dissidence obtained.
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“I hear a lot of triumphalism, which is fine, but they don’t stop to analyze that there are more than 200 thousand dissenting votesof Colorados looking for an emerging, new and alternative leadership,” he said Daniel Centurion.
The project is the presidential
Deputy Centurión indicated that after the electoral defeatit’s time to regroup the troops, shake themselves up and start working for the presidential candidacy. He added that Colorado Añetete’s proposal is Arnold Wiens and that you work with your own identity.
“We must rebuild our identity, we have a presidential project different from the one offered by the ruling party, Arnold Wiens and a leader who is “Mario Benitez”said the deputy.
Although it recognizes that at the country level Añetete’s candidates They did not have enough votes, that is because many of them arrived with a worn figure and that is where work must be done.
“Municipal candidates are localist candidates and for that they must propose a dialectic that can adhere to citizenship. Many candidates arrived with a worn figure due to their political background,” said Centurión.
He indicated that the dissidents must propose new candidates, with emerging and not imposed figures, as the movement offers. Honor Coloradojust as he did with Santiago Peña in the presidential elections and then with Camilo Perez.
“In the ruling party it is necessary to recognize the imposition of candidates, outside of party militancy, as the movement has accustomed us to Honor Coloradoand it works, that’s why we must offer something different and work on that,” he pointed out. Daniel Centurion.
