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Weekly Report - 28 October 2010 (WR-10-43)

PARAGUAY: Impeachment: the threat that never fades

Impeachment is a word that President Fernando Lugo has become increasingly used to since coming to power in August 2008. The opposition-controlled congress has chosen to leave it hanging in the air as a permanent threat, though it is unlikely to act on it. Lugo's battle with cancer is causing additional tension between his government and congress and this burst into the open when Vice-President Federico Franco, who assumed the presidency of the country while Lugo was away in Brazil for emergency treatment on 4 and 5 October, claimed the constitution was violated in his absence.

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