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Weekly Report - 02 March 2017 (WR-17-08)

PARAGUAY: Re-election debate takes centre stage

Paraguay’s congress returns from recess on 2 March with one word on everyone’s lips: re-election. President Horacio Cartes is determined to seek re-election in 2018. Domestic politics is dominated by the imminent prospect of the principal faction of the ruling Asociación Nacional Republicana-Partido Colorado (ANR-PC) tabling a new motion in congress to remove the current constitutional bar on re-election. The largest faction of the main opposition Partido Liberal Radical Auténtico (PLRA), and the dissident wing of the ANR-PC, has denounced Cartes as a latter-day General Alfredo Stroessner, the dictator who ruled the country with an iron fist from 1954 until 1989, and will try and thwart him.

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