MOSCOW, May 16 (RIA Novosti) - Paraguayan traffic police have fined the country’s president, Fernando Lugo, for breaking traffic regulations, AP reported Saturday.
Highway transit chief Eduardo Petta said Lugo, a former Roman Catholic bishop, had been behind the wheel of a Ford Explorer, which was not displaying license plates, as it illegally passed another vehicle on a highway.
Petta said that when he approached the vehicle, he explained to President Lugo why he had stopped him and asked for his driver's license, which had expired.
"For the two infractions I fined him 520,000 guaranies ($104). He has five days to pay the ticket," the police chief told Nanduti radio.
Petta said that when Lugo, who has pledged to eradicate government corruption but has been accused of being involved in a paternity scandal himself, appointed him police chief, he asked him “not to forgive anyone, even the pope.”
Petta said the president said nothing but moved to the back seat and his bodyguard got behind the wheel.
