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Weekly Report - 22 August 2013 (WR-13-33)
PARAGUAY: Cartes era begins
Horacio Cartes was sworn-in as president on 15 August. A business tycoon who only recently turned to politics, Cartes is an enigma. His cabinet appointments are consistent with his determination to be his own man, rather than being beholden to the party which brought him to power, the Asociación Nacional Republicana-Partido Colorado (ANR-PC). But he is not afraid to borrow from all and sundry. His largely technocratic cabinet is modelled on that of Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera; his decision to sign a broad accord with four opposition parties to win congressional approval for a series of reforms in order to hit the ground running imitates Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto’s ‘Pacto por México’; and his ‘days of government’, which will see him visit different parts of Paraguay every Saturday to engage in local politics, borrows from the region’s left-leaning governments.
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