Rafael Filizzola
Rafael Augusto Filizzola Serra is a Paraguayan politician. He served as the Paraguayan interior minister under President Fernando Lugo from 2008 to 2011. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Paraguay from 1998 to 2008 for the Party for a Country of Solidarity, and elected to the Senate of Paraguay for the Democratic Progressive Party in 2008. He resigned his seat in order to become interior minister.
In 2009, he accused Federico Acuña, of turning a blind eye to corruption during Acuña's period in office in 2008 as National Police Chief.
Filizzola is married to Desirée Masi, the leader of the Democratic Progressive Party. Filizzola is the cousin of Carlos Filizzola, also a Paraguayan politician.
