Asunción: Gerardo Soria Davalos, President of the ANR Party Office No. 107, called for Horacio Cartes to step down as President of the Colorado Party after the US government sanctioned the ex-President for alleged links to terrorism.
“How can we say we’re going to be better off or that we want a different society when we have a President of the Colorado Party who is being blamed and sanctioned by the United States government, nothing more and nothing less than an accomplice of terrorism,” Soria said in an interview with Radio Monumental.
Although the leaders of the Fuerza Republicana movement, which opposes Cartes within the Colorado party, have assured that they will not call for Horacio Cartes’ resignation as President of the ANR, Section 107 President Gerardo Soria said that he would call an official motion as he believed that the party should not be associated in any way with terrorism.
“We face a grave reality today in the Colorado Party, whose President is being sanctioned by the US. All that’s left is for them to say that the party is an accomplice to terrorism,” he said.
He questioned Carte supporters, who are trying to claim it is just a whim of the current ambassador, who is in the country today.
“Today we face a very serious reality in the Colorado party, as the president of what is currently Paraguay’s most powerful party has been sanctioned by the United States, which is not just any country,” he said.
“The party is not Cartes, and Cartes is not the party”
He added that Horacio Cartes, just as he published a communiqué saying he was worried about his 10,000 employees and the fate of his companies, which is why he was retiring from them, he also had to worry about the 2,500 ,000 members of the Colorado Party ensure that the ANR does not have a reputation as an accomplice to terrorists.
“The party is not Cartes, and Cartes is not the party. In the history of the country great men have walked through the party and we cannot stand on the edge of this situation and try to sweep our dirt under the rug and say that nothing is happening here, that we are not talking about this issue because we’re all Colorados here,” he said.
Soria also urged Santiago Peña, the Colorado Party’s presidential candidate, to take a clear position on the issue.
“If he wants to be the statesman he wants to be, he must also show firmness in his terms and say what kind of country we want. He can’t go to the United States on the one hand and say do what’s best and then come here and say, ‘We don’t agree with what the ambassador is telling us.’ Coffee or milk,” he said.
He believed that as Colorados they should be concerned first with the fate of the party and second with their candidacy at the national level.
Weekly paper / Radio Monumental
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