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Brazil & Southern Cone - November 2016 (ISSN 1741-4431)

Re-election debate takes centre stage as Cartes ends speculation

After months of playing coy about his true intentions, Paraguay’s President Horacio Cartes has finally announced in no uncertain terms that with the help of the ruling Asociación Nacional Republicana- Partido Colorado (ANR-PC), he will seek to introduce presidential re-election into the national constitution in a bid to retain the presidency in the 2018 general elections. Achieving this will be no mean feat given that the political opposition and the ANR-PC dissidence remain opposed to the idea. This means that the prospect of introducing this constitutional change through a congressionally approved amendment is minimal, leaving only the drafting of a new constitution as the most viable option. However, this initiative could produce significant political instability.

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