Weekly Report - 23 May 2013 (WR-13-20)

Paraguay’s president-elect Horacio Cartes and impeached former president Fernando Lugo (2008-2012) are not the likeliest of bedfellows. Lugo explicitly accused Cartes of orchestrating his downfall in congress last June. Cartes won April’s presidential elections on the ticket of the Asociación Nacional Republicana-Partido Colorado (ANR-PC), the party whose long stranglehold on power Lugo finally loosened when he took office in 2008, promising to usher in a new dawn in Paraguayan politics. And yet when Cartes met Lugo for a private meeting in Lugo’s house on 16 May, pure pragmatism prevailed over previous differences. Lugo will hold one of five senate seats for his leftist coalition Frente Guasú (FG) when Cartes takes office on 15 August – and they could be crucial.

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