Paraguay: Did Peña Resign or Was Resignation Rejected?

CoinTurk News EN and Bitcoin.com News give conflicting accounts of whether President Santiago Peña's resignation took effect before Congress impeached him.

CoinTurk News EN and Bitcoin.com News give conflicting accounts of whether President Santiago Peña's resignation took effect before Congress impeached him.

What all sources agree on

• Ueno Bank, a major Paraguayan digital lender, collapsed after its solvency ratio fell below the required legal minimum.
• The collapse affected roughly 2.9 million customers, a large share of Paraguay's adult population.
• Santiago Peña had a prior ownership stake tied to Ueno's owners (Grupo Vázquez) and said he divested in 2025.
• Paraguay's lower house voted unanimously to impeach Peña, forwarding the matter toward the Senate.
• Paraguay's central bank characterized the Ueno failure as an isolated case, not a system-wide banking crisis.

Where the reports disagree

1Whether Peña's resignation took effect or was rejected by Congress

Paraguayan President Santiago Peña resigned following the collapse of Ueno Bank, a digital lender whose failure left approximately 2.9 million customers unable to access their funds.

CoinTurk News EN 2026-11-05 23:32

Lawmakers rejected President Peña's resignation, voting instead to impeach him over his bank links.

Bitcoin.com News 2026-11-06 09:30

What would settle it: The official record of the Paraguayan Congress session addressing Peña's resignation and the subsequent impeachment vote.

2Whether both houses of Congress declined to accept the resignation

both houses of the Paraguayan Congress declined to accept his resignation, as it would allow him to have access to a lifelong Senate seat offering immunity from a criminal conviction later on that could only be lifted by a parliamentary majority of two-thirds in the Senate.

Bitcoin.com News 2026-11-06 09:30

Just minutes after Peña's resignation, Paraguay's lower house voted unanimously to impeach him, forwarding charges to the Senate.

CoinTurk News EN 2026-11-05 23:32

What would settle it: The official record of the Paraguayan Congress session addressing Peña's resignation and the subsequent impeachment vote.

What to make of it

Treat as established that Ueno Bank's collapse triggered an impeachment vote against Peña and that he had prior financial ties to the bank's owners; do not treat as settled whether his resignation was accepted or rejected by Congress until an official legislative record is available.

Treat as established that Ueno Bank's collapse triggered an impeachment vote against Peña and that he had prior financial ties to the bank's owners; do not treat as settled whether his resignation was accepted or rejected by Congress until an official legislative record is available.