Reply #20: It's just been called for the leftist, Fernando Lugo, on the basis on exit polls-- [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

and by a big margin 43% (Lugo), to 37% (closest opponent, in a 3-way race).

Leftist ex-bishop ends Colorado Party rule in Paraguay: exit polls

AFP - 14 hours ago

ASUNCION (AFP) — Leftist coalition leader and former bishop Fernando Lugo won Paraguay's presidential vote Sunday, trouncing rival Blanca Ovelar by 43-37 percent and ending her Colorado Party's 61-year rule in the country, according to exit polls.

Lino Oviedo, 64, a retired army chief who helped stage a coup that ended the 35-year military dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner, was in third place with 16 percent of the vote, according to the poll by ABC/Nanduti radio.

An Ultima Hora/Coin/Telefuturo exit poll gave Lugo's Patriotic Alliance for Change 40.1 percent of the vote to 37.2 for Ovelar.

There is no runoff vote in Paraguay. (MORE)

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hL-uFf-4fkRqLVv2lRQCSaMpJXuA