one year on since he was elected to office as president of paraguay , fernando mendoza is making headlines in the society he represented , but for all the wrong reasons . newspapers and tv programmes have been dominated by stories of women coming out to claim they had a child with the former catholic bishop . this " political soap opera " , complained one of these reports , is " paralysing the government " . three women have made allegations so far and there were allegations in the paraguay media that there may be more claims to come .
Fernando Lugo was a Catholic bishop.