Belén Mayor Promises Car Raffle in Bid for Re-election

Javier Peralta, the incumbent mayor of Belén in Paraguay's Concepción department, has announced he will raffle a car following the internal elections this Sunday. Peralta, affiliated with the ANR-HC party, is seeking re-election, a move referred to locally as "rekutu."

The announcement of the car raffle quickly went viral on social media, generating a wide range of comments. Peralta, a member of the "colorado cartista" faction, needs to win the internal elections of the Colorado Party to secure his bid for re-election as mayor of Belén.

His opponent in the internal elections is Daniel Cubilla, representing the Colorado Añeteté movement. A total of 15 voting tables are set up at the Colorado Party's local headquarters in Belén, located 20 kilometers from Concepción, the department's capital.

Police in Concepción reported some incidents at polling stations in Arroyito and Belén districts, though described them as not serious. The issues primarily involved disputes over the formation of voting tables. In Belén, voting was momentarily interrupted at one table in the Colorado headquarters due to a complaint about an individual loitering near a voting machine.