Buenos Aires, May 6 (BNA) Paraguayan police on Friday arrested Paraguayan Cubas, a far-right populist who came third in Sunday’s presidential election and encouraged his supporters to protest his baseless allegations that the vote was marred by fraud. The press (AP) reported.
Police Commissioner Gilberto Fleitas said in a radio interview that Cubas was being held in preventive detention under an order from the Public Prosecutor’s Office accusing him of breaching the peace.
Cubas, the candidate of the National Crusade party who received 23% of the vote on Sunday, was live on Facebook when officers detained him outside his hotel in San Lorenzo, about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Asuncion.
Copas got into a police car “without any difficulty,” Fleitas said, but continued to broadcast live.
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