Removed president of Paraguay, Santiago Peña is arrested in Asunción

We are here in the square that is exactly in front of Congress, where the Senate has just voted to impeach the now former president of Paraguay Santiago Peña. Immediately after he was removed, a large crowd here in the square began to demonstrate. They protest against the Colorado Party, which is the party of the former president and also the vice president, and also for the situation at Ueno bank, because many of them have their money locked up, without access to the money. Soon after the impeachment was voted on, a sequence of events took place. President Peña published on social media that he was leaving office, thanked the people and said goodbye, which is not quite true, because his letter of resignation was not accepted. He was removed by impeachment. And by impeachment, he does not gain senatorial status for life and does not gain parliamentary immunity. Therefore, shortly afterwards, the Public Ministry indicted the former president, requested his arrest, and he is at home under house arrest. The vice president also took office here just now. We prepared a report about this frantic day, says reporter César Menezes.

The session that opened work this Friday (6) in the Paraguayan Senate should have started with the defense of the country's president, Santiago Peña. But, early on, he submitted a request for a 72-hour postponement, claiming that he only received the notification late on Thursday night (5) and did not have enough time to choose a trustworthy lawyer to exercise his right to defense.