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Weekly Report - 01 September 2016 (WR-16-34)
PARAGUAY: Opposition spoils re-election hopes for Cartes
The political opponents of Paraguay’s President Horacio Cartes have orchestrated a masterstroke in the national congress designed to scupper any hopes he and his supporters held of amending the constitution to allow him to seek re-election in 2018. In an unexpected move opposition legislators decided to present and swiftly defeat a constitutional amendment proposal to introduce presidential re-election in the senate. Under congressional rules, no new such proposal can be put to the legislature for the next 12 months. Opponents of Cartes believe that the move makes it virtually impossible for any such constitutional change to be approved and put into effect before the 2018 general elections.
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