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Brazil & Southern Cone - July 2011 (ISSN 1741-4431)
PARAGUAY: Rumoured deal to save ruling coalition
As we go to press Paraguay’s expectations are set on its possible entry into the Copa América’s football final; the government of President Fernando Lugo is possibly more excited than anyone else: as people and the local media concentrate on the team’s historic performance, his political advisors have time and space to manoeuvre in an attempt to resolve what appears to be the imminent rupture of the ruling coalition. With the so-called ‘Plan A’, an attempt to reform the constitution to allow for Lugo’s re-election, having failed, the local press has revealed the details of an alleged ‘Plan B’ that would both sideline Lugo’s main opponent within the coalition, his vice-president Federico Franco, and secure Lugo’s continuation in politics after 2013.
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