Alumna officially elected as vice-presidential candidate for the 2023 Paraguay general elections

Soledad Nuñez Mendez

Soledad Nuñez Mendez (MPP 2018) has been officially elected as vice-presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections.

Soledad won by 59.25% of the votes in the Concertación Para un Nuevo Paraguay (Coalition for a New Paraguay). The coalition brings together all the opposition and independent parties of Paraguay and they will face the incumbent Colorado party in the general elections in April 2023.

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