Paraguay’s President Horacio Cartes ended his second state-of-the-nation address before the national congress on 1 July by calling on legislators from all political parties but in particular from the ruling Asociación Nacional Republicana-Partido Colorado (ANR-PC) to work with his government and help establish a “stable [political] environment”. Cartes said that this was needed to continue attracting foreign investment and move towards the country’s development. But Cartes’s call was immediately dismissed by the newly elected president of congress, ANR-PC Senator Mario Abdo Benítez, who said that it was Cartes’s own failure to listen to the country’s political class which was producing “instability”.End of preview - This article contains approximately 754 words.
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