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Protesters bake parliament, demonstration in Paraguay
- Updated: April 2, 2017
A malcontent protests in Asuncion on Friday. Pic/AFP
Asuncion: Protesters stormed and set glow to Paraguay’s Parliament on Friday after a Senate personally voted for a inherent amendment that would concede President Horacio Cartes to run for re-election. The country’s structure has taboo re-election given it was upheld in 1992 after a heartless persecution fell in 1989.
“A manoeuvre has been carried out. We will resist, and we entice a people to conflict with us,” pronounced senator Desiree Masi from a antithesis Progressive Democratic Party.
President Horacio Cartes
Firefighters managed to control a abandon after protesters left a Congress building late on Friday. But protests continued in other tools of Asuncion and a nation good into a night, a media reported. Earlier, TV images showed protesters violation windows of a Congress and contrary with a police, blazing tires and stealing tools of fences around a building. The military dismissed rip gas and rubber bullets.
Many politicians and reporters were injured, and interior apportion Tadeo Rojas pronounced policemen were hurt. The series of casualties was unknown.
Cartes called for ease and a rejecting of assault in a matter expelled on Twitter. “Democracy is not cowed or shielded with assault and we can be certain this supervision will continue to put a best bid into progressing sequence in a republic,” he said.
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