The idea of spending an entire Sunday — for 12 or 14 continuous hours — sitting before a voting table ceased to be an attractive activity long ago. Those who remember the accounts of the most veterans evoke with some nostalgia those days after the fall of Alfredo Stroessner’s regime. In the 1991 municipal elections, the first ones where citizens were able to directly choose their mayors instead of receiving finger designations from the executive…
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The idea of spending an entire Sunday — for 12 or 14 continuous hours — sitting before a voting table ceased to be an attractive activity long ago. Those who remember the accounts of the most veterans evoke with some nostalgia those days after the fall of Alfredo Stroessner’s regime. In the 1991 municipal elections, the first ones where citizens were able to directly choose their mayors instead of receiving finger designations from the executive…