National Crusade Party

Following the results of the 2018 elections, the party elected its representative, Paraguayo "Payo" Cubas, to the Senate.[6][7] In November 2019, he was expelled from the Senate on charges of abuse of power and hooliganism.[8]

In February 2020, the National Crusade Movement was renamed to the National Crusade Party.[9]

In 2020, the party suffered a split after some members of the MCN accused the leader of the party, Cubas, and his wife, Yolanda Paredes, of authoritarianism.[10]

After the party's failure in the 2021 municipal elections, Paraguayo Cubas, the president of the party, announced his resignation.[11]

On the eve of the 2023 general election, the Cubas party participated in the creation of the Concertación coalition,[12] but soon left it before the election of a single opposition candidate, deciding to participate in the elections independently.[5][13] In the 2023 elections, Cubas was considered an outsider or spoiler candidate for the Concertación, who would gain support among the anti-systemic electorate, advocating the death penalty for corruption.[3][14]

In the general election, despite Cubas losing the presidential election (winning almost 23% of the vote), the party became the third largest political force in both Chambers of Congress (after the Colorado Party and the PLRA), winning 4 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 5 seats in the Senate.[15] Among the Senators-elect are Cubas's wife Yolanda Paredes and plastic artist Rafael "Mbururú" Esquivel, the latter arrested over child sexual abuse charges at the time of the election.[16]