About 90% of voters approved a referendum that would allow ex-pats living overseas to vote in elections.
However, only 10% of the population voted in the referendum.
Now the congress must discuss the issue...before it is introduced as a constitutional amendment.
President Fernando Lugo (above) calls the vote an historic civil rights effort.
An estimated 500.000 to 700.000 Paraguayans live abroad...out of a population of 7 million.
Most ex-pats live in Argentina, Spain and the USA.