Julio César Ramón Franco Gómez (born 17 April 1951

Senate of Paraguay The Chamber of Senators of Paraguay (''Cámara de Senadores''), the upper house of the National Congress, has 45 members, elected for a five-year term by proportional representation. The Paraguayan bicameral legislature, which included the Sena ...

Senador Julio César Ramón Franco Gómez
accessed 29 June 2012) is a

Paraguayan Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...

politician of the

Authentic Radical Liberal Party The Authentic Radical Liberal Party ( es, Partido Liberal Radical Auténtico or ''PLRA'') is a centrist liberal political party in Paraguay. The party is a full member of Liberal International. The ''liberales'', as they are known, are the le ...

. He was vice president from 2000 to 2002, served as senator from 1998 to 2003, and was presidential candidate for the Authentic Radical Liberal Party in the 2003 election, losing to

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of the Colorado Party. He was elected to the Senate again in 2008. Franco is a surgeon by profession, with a degree from the

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. Following the March 1999 murder of Vice President

Luis María Argaña Luis María del Corazón de Jesús Dionisio Argaña Ferraro (October 3, 1932 – March 23, 1999) was a prominent Paraguayan politician and Supreme Court judge. He was an influential member of the Colorado Party and rose to the Vice-Presi ...

, Senator Franco was elected in direct election on 13 August 2000 to be

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. He served the remainder of the four-year-term from September 2000 to 2002. He is the chairman of the

. Franco is the brother of

Federico Franco Luis Federico Franco Gómez (born 24 July 1962) is a Paraguayan politician who was President of Paraguay from June 2012 until August 2013. A member of the Authentic Radical Liberal Party (PLRA), he was elected as Vice President of Paraguay in th ...

, who became President of Paraguay in June 2012 following the

impeachment of Fernando Lugo Fernando Lugo, elected President of Paraguay in 2008, was impeached and removed from office by the Congress of Paraguay in June 2012. On 21 June the Chamber of Deputies voted 76 to 1 to impeach Lugo, and the Senate removed him from office the f ...

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