Former Roman Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo ended more than six decades of rule by Paraguay's Colorado Party in presidential elections, vowing to spread economic growth to the country's poorest people.
Lugo, who heads the Patriotic Alliance for Change, won 40.8 percent of the votes yesterday, compared with 30.7 percent for the Colorado Party's Blanca Ovelar, the Election Court said on its Web site. Former General Lino Oviedo was third with 22 percent. Ovelar's defeat was the Colorado Party's first in its 61 years in power, the longest of any ruling party in the world.
Will Lugo work for the poor or seal their economic placement?
