Camilo Jorge Pérez López Moreira reported to the Electoral Justice spending of G. 2,367,369,549 in the Colorado Party (ANR) primary for mayor of Asunción, held on June 7, 2026. The amount was 7.15 times higher than the G. 330,949,018 reported by Santiago Peña in the Colorado presidential primary in December 2022.
The comparison draws attention because the contests had very different reaches. The election that established Peña as the presidential candidate involved Colorado voters in all 263 districts of the country. The municipal contest, by contrast, took place in a single municipality and recorded 129,987 voters.
Asunción had 255,340 ANR members in 2026, equivalent to 10.03% of the party’s national membership registry. In the primary and general campaigns that led to his presidency, Peña reported G. 817,082,064: G. 330,949,018 in the primary and G. 486,133,046 in the general election on April 30, 2023.
The difference also emerges in comparison with Pérez’s opponents. Arnaldo Samaniego, a senator and the main competitor in the municipal race, reported G. 108,648,425, according to data from the National Political Financing Observatory (ONAFIP), an Electoral Justice system that allows users to consult campaign finance reports. Pérez’s reported spending was 21.8 times higher. Daniel Centurión, who withdrew to support Samaniego, reported no personal expenses.
The figures refer to the candidates’ individual reports. Internal party movements submit their own reports, so the amounts do not necessarily represent the total cost of each campaign, but they allow comparison of the resources reported by the candidates.
The campaign was also accompanied by allegations that have not yet been officially confirmed. Employees of the Asunción Municipality told the press that municipal workers had allegedly been compulsorily taken to political events, with possible reprisals against those who did not participate. Then-mayor Luis Bello also announced, less than three weeks before the elections, the signing of a collective agreement with municipal workers. Opposition councilors and lawmakers questioned the measure and said it could have an electoral purpose.
In June, pro-government lawmakers blocked a request for information about the management of resources for the 2025 Asunción Junior Pan American Games, organized by the Paraguayan Olympic Committee, chaired by Pérez and financed mainly with public funds.
There were also questions about digital advertisements favorable to Pérez. Records from the Google Ads Transparency Center showed four advertisements run between May 21 and 26 by the Argentine company Oranget Digital SAS. The company’s association with the so-called “Disinformation Network,” mentioned by ABC Color, was not independently corroborated in the available material. Pérez denied that Azafrán S.A. was working on his current campaign, although he acknowledged that the Paraguayan Olympic Committee had hired the company.