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Weekly Report - 14 January 2016 (WR-16-02)

PARAGUAY: Cartes marks the New Year with his first cabinet reshuffle

President Horacio Cartes welcomed the New Year by unexpectedly carrying out his first cabinet reshuffle since assuming office in August 2013. The mini-reshuffle has seen two prominent members of the so-called ‘national team’ of ministers replaced at the start of the third year of Cartes’s five-year term. In the last two years Cartes has come under mounting criticism for his administration’s failure to fulfil some of its key electoral promises. But despite criticism from the opposition, civil-society groups and even dissident members of the ruling Asociación Nacional Republicana-Partido Colorado (ANR-PC), until now Cartes has stubbornly resisted making any ministerial changes. The changes in the justice and agriculture & livestock ministries have thus attracted a great deal of attention.

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