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Weekly Report - 28 February 2013 (WR-13-08)
PARAGUAY: Cartes and Alegre step on the gas
The electoral campaign is getting under way in earnest in Paraguay, with a first televised debate between presidential candidates seeking election on 21 April, having taken place this week. Opinion polls suggest that there is little to choose between Horacio Cartes, the wealthy businessman running for the country’s largest political party Asociación Nacional Republicana–Partido Colorado (ANR-PC) and Efraín Alegre, of the Partido Liberal Radical Auténtico (PLRA). The PLRA had looked like stealing a march on the ANR-PC by securing an alliance with the Unión Nacional de Ciudadanos Éticos (Unace), the party of General Lino Oviedo who recently died in a helicopter crash, but talks were ultimately unsuccessful.
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