More than five million eligible voters will choose mayors and municipal boards in 263 districts on Sunday. The electoral authority has also said it plans to publish a non-voter list afterward; appearing on that list is not the same as receiving a final fine.
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Electoral officials explain how nonvoters will be identified and discuss justifications and collection. Voters can check their polling place on the TSJE portal and should bring their physical identity card, even if it has expired.
The TSJE hopes turnout will top 70%, up from 63% in 2021. Pytagua found a gap between an adviser’s quoted 5.4 million voters and the official roll of 5,043,154.
Soledad Núñez accused Luis Bello of advancing a new collective agreement on the eve of the election and said in an interview with ABC TV that about 93% of Asunción’s resources go to operating expenses.
Paraguay will set up 14,711 polling stations with voting machines for Sunday’s municipal elections. Voters can practice on an official simulator and check their polling place and station number on the electoral portal by presenting a valid or expired Paraguayan identity card. More than 4,000 election officials will support logistics. Counting of tally sheets is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m., followed at 5:45 p.m. by preliminary results transmission: coded data from CTX centers will be processed automatically using character recognition, with 55% of the machines allocated to departments in the interior.
Paraguay’s Electoral Justice is distributing equipment for the October 4 municipal elections, with voting from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. The deployment includes 2,094 backup voting machines and one training machine at each of the 1,187 polling places.
A total of 1.36 million voters aged 18 to 29, equivalent to 27% of Paraguay’s electorate, are eligible to vote in the municipal elections on October 4, 2026, according to data from the Permanent Civic Registry.
In Paraguay’s municipal elections on October 4, 2026, the Supreme Court of Electoral Justice (TSJE) will organize and supervise the election, while political parties, the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the National Police will oversee the process, investigate electoral crimes and secure polling places.
Camilo Jorge Pérez López Moreira reported the highest spending among the Colorado Party candidates in the primary for mayor of Asunción, exceeding the amount reported by Arnaldo Samaniego by 21.8 times, while allegations involving the use of municipal resources and digital advertising remain officially unconfirmed.
The Paraguayan Senate postponed, for lack of a quorum, a vote on an independent audit of voting machines ahead of the October 4 municipal elections after governing-party senators left the chamber; the request arose from possible inconsistencies in election records, with no fraud yet proven.
Bonifacio Ríos Ávalos was unanimously elected dean of the National University of Asunción’s Law and Social Sciences School and, while awaiting his inauguration, pledged to strengthen institutional governance and fight clientelism amid internal disputes and allegations of academic irregularities.
Former UNA rector Froilán Peralta was released on September 3, 2026, after serving a three-year sentence for breach of trust related to a loss of G. 1.15 billion for the university.
PLRA deputies held a service day in Córdoba for Paraguayans and proposed integrating the identity and voter-registration systems after the local consulate closed in 2024 for budgetary reasons.
The Court of Appeals upheld the rejection of Luis Carlos Benítez Aguilar’s request for access to the source code and hashes of voting machines for Paraguay’s municipal elections on October 4, 2026, citing contractual and intellectual-property limitations.
The TSJE conducted a nationwide TREP simulation on August 28, while Villarrica separately tested the system at its 19 polling locations; sources differ over whether the schedule ended on August 29 or 30.
Women account for 16% of mayoral candidacies in Paraguay’s 2026 municipal elections, up from 12.9% in 2021, while they represent 32% of registrations for Municipal Councils, according to the Supreme Tribunal of Electoral Justice, which is providing training to expand women’s political participation.
Paraguay's National Police has more than 120,000 identity documents and passports unclaimed by citizens and warns of fraud attempts by Brazilian criminals from gangs seeking to obtain Paraguayan documents.
Paraguayan Senator Esperanza Martínez denounces that politicians, including senators, deputies, governors, and ministers, are linked to drug trafficking, finance campaigns with illicit money, and enjoy impunity, pointing to systemic tolerance for corruption in the country.
Deputies and representatives of agencies, including the Superior Court of Electoral Justice, the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies, the Secretariat for Development for Repatriated and Refugee Compatriots, the Paraguayan Migration Coordination, and the Migrant Women's Network, will meet on August 10 to evaluate the implementation of the automatic registration law in the Permanent Civic Registry for Paraguayans abroad.
Candidates for mayor of Asunción declared widely varying amounts for their campaign expenditures, with Camilo Pérez leading at G 700 million, while the 24 city council candidates from the Colorado Party collectively declared G 2.436 million, in public data that experts criticize for failing to detail the actual source of funds.
Paraguay's Superior Tribunal of Electoral Justice has published the income and expense declarations of all candidates for the October municipal elections, which are available for public consultation on the ONAFIP portal.
The Superior Court of Electoral Justice of Paraguay (TSJE) warns that the current political financing legislation has limitations that make it difficult to prevent illicit money from entering campaigns, with effective oversight only possible after elections, and that the body is working on proposals for adjustments to achieve more effective control.
Senator Lilian Samaniego defended the continued tenure of the IPS Board of Directors, while an internal audit contradicted the allegation of financial damage to Banco Atlas in the trust fund case.
The official campaign period for Paraguay's 2026 municipal elections began on Thursday, July 16, while the electoral authority is also maintaining the final deadline for the submission of political financing reports.