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Asunci\u00f3n, Paraguay, Jun 25, 2012 \/ 12:04 pm (CNA<\/a>).- On June 22, President Fernando Lugo of Paraguay was impeached by the country's senate for \u201cpoor performance of duties,\u201d after recent clashes between police and farmers left 17 people dead.<\/p>\n

\tSix police officers and eleven farmers died in the clashes took place on June 15 when police attempted to expel farmers from a piece of land in northeastern Paraguay. The country\u2019s interior minister, Carlos Filizzola, and national police chief Paulino Rojas were forced to resign as a result.<\/p>\n

\tAlthough Lugo tried to ease the political crisis by forming a commission to investigate the incident, this was not enough to keep the Paraguayan Congress for beginning impeachment proceedings against him for his role in the tragedy.<\/p>\n

\tThe Senate, which came together in a special session to try the impeachment, voted to oust President Lugo from office.<\/p>\n

\tWhile the country\u2019s armed forces vowed to respect the democratic process, outside Congress hundreds of supporters of Lugo clashed with police over the ouster.<\/p>\n

\tOn the previous day, the Bishops\u2019 Conference of Paraguay had issued a statement calling \u201con political leaders, social organizations, unions and the citizenry to maintain calm and avoid any confrontations and violence that would jeopardize the wellbeing and lives of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tLugo launched his candidacy for the president while still a Catholic bishop, which prompted the Holy See to strip him of his clerical state on July 30, 2008.\u00a0 His impeachment does not mean he can return to his activities as a bishop, contrary to some reports in the media.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe Holy See, after attempting to dissuade Bishop Fernando Lugo from running as a candidate for President of the Republic (cf. CIC can. 285&2), suspended him from the exercise of the priestly ministry,\u201d the decree explains.<\/p>\n

\tThe office \u201cof president of the Republic of Paraguay is not compatible with the obligations of the Episcopal ministry and the clerical state,\u201d it adds.<\/p>\n

\tThe Nunciature in Paraguay said that the Church\u2019s action in the case of Lugo \u201cis due exclusively to canonical and pastoral reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n

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