The admission of the claim was confirmed by Lugo’s lawyer, Emilio Camacho, who explained the scope of the action that has only now been admitted for processing.
Camacho outlined that the action is based on the “defenselessness” of Lugo during his impeachment trial, an occasion on which -as they argue- there was the “violation of fundamental rights and the San José de Costa Rica pact.”
After the call Curuguaty massacre -which ended with 11 peasants and six dead policemen-, colorados and liberals joined other smaller blocs to promote the impeachment of Lugo, the first non-colorado president since the return of democracy, and in just 48 hours the exit was voted of the office of the president, later replaced by his vice, the liberal Federico Franco.
The sectors that sponsored the political trial relied on formal compliance with Article 225 of the Paraguayan Constitution and, on the other hand, serious violations of due process, lack of real evidence, presentation of false accusations and unprecedented speed for a process of these characteristics.
The defense, for example, had two hours to present its defense in the Senate.
With the declaration of admissibility of the petition, the process is also processed and has already been communicated to the Foreign Ministry, according to Camacho.
“Now there is a non-extendable period of six months for the parties to come up with new arguments or not,” he said, according to the website of the newspaper ABC Color.
As in all cases in which the IACHR admits a complaint, there is a chance that Lugo and the Paraguayan State will reach an agreement, but if that possibility does not prosper and a conviction is reached, the case could go to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR).
Among the arguments taken into account by the IACHR to admit the action are the fact that Congress only gave 16 hours to the defense of the former president and that the accusatory libel had only two pages.
Lugo had been elected president in 2008, in an alliance that was also made up of the Authentic Radical Liberal Party (PLRA), which later split in support of the process. The ex-bishop’s triumph cut decades of hegemony from the Colorado Party.
Source From: Ambito
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