Paraguay gives a pair

In the capital of Paraguay Asunsion, the demonstrators stormed and set fire to the building of the country's parliament, the BBC reports . They protest against the adoption of the law, which allows the president to re -elect for a second term.

The Paraguay Constitution adopted in 1992 restricts the stay of the president for one five -year period. President of the country Orasio Carlets, whose term of office expires in 2018, wants to remove this restriction.

On Friday, the upper house of Congress gathered for a secret meeting to cancel the situation of the Constitution. After the reports of this, excitement began in AsunSion. Protesters built barricades around the Congres building, broke windows, burned tires. Then they burst into the building and began to search the offices of Cardet's supporters, after which some of them set fire.

In response, the police used water guns, tear gas and rubber bullets against the demonstrators. Several local politicians and journalists, as well as a large number of police officers were injured.

Nevertheless, the senators managed to approve the amendments. Now they should now be agreed in the lower house of parliament. The opposition insists that voting in the Senate was illegitimate in nature, and that the initiative about the possible re -election of the president will weaken democratic institutions. The Supreme Court has already filed a lawsuit demanding to cancel the voting results

The speaker of the lower house said that the meeting on this issue on Saturday would not take place and it is not worth expecting any decision, and also called on the country's citizens to remain calm.

For 35 years, from 1954 to 1989, Paraguay was under the rule of General Alfredo Stressner. He was “re -elected” the president eight times in a non -free election. Since the creation of a new system of power in accordance with the 1992 Constitution, Paraguay has experienced several periods of political instability, including a failed coup attempt.