Lugo was aided by the presence of Federico Franco of the traditional opposition Authentic Radical Liberal Party (PLRA) on the ticket as its vice presidential candidate.

Lugo's electoral coalition, the Patriotic Alliance for Change (APC), was able to elect him as President (gaining 42.3% of the vote, against the second-placed Colorado candidate's 31.8%).

[3] On 16 June Lugo accepted the resignation of his interior minister Carlos Filizzola and of National Police chief General Paulino Rojas.

[5] On 16 June former National General Counsel Rubén Candia Amarilla, a controversial figure from the Colorado Party,[6] took over the Ministry of Interior.

[12] Lugo announced that he would denounce the case to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, stating that the time to prepare a legal defence, just two hours, may be unconstitutional.

The next day, Lugo stated that while he still believed his impeachment amounted to a coup, nothing short of a "miraculous" reversal of course by Congress would allow him to regain office.

Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff proposed suspending Paraguay's membership in Mercosur and the Union of South American Nations.

[21] The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issued a statement on 23 June declaring "unacceptable the speed with which the impeachment of the constitutional and democratically elected President was conducted.

[23] In contrast, some Uruguayan opposition politicians and analysts regarded the impeachment as lawful under the Paraguayan constitution, such as Juan Carlos Doyenart,[24] Julio María Sanguinetti[25] and Sergio Abreu.