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Brazil & Southern Cone - October 2017 (ISSN 1741-4431)
Opposition alliance is revived ahead of 2018 polls
Paraguay’s political parties are already thinking of strategies to win the April 2018 general election. This became clear after two of the country’s largest opposition parties decided to revive the successful electoral alliance that they forged for the 2008 general election that allowed them to inflict a historic defeat on the traditional Asociación Nacional Republicana – Partido Colorado (ANR-PC) to capture the presidency with Fernando Lugo (2008-2012). The main opposition, the traditional Partido Liberal Radical Auténtico (PLRA), along with Lugo’s Frente Guasú (FG) leftist opposition coalition, have once again agreed to join forces and back a consensus presidential ticket next year to try to once again unseat the ANR-PC. Paraguay’s current political circumstances may in many ways be very different from what they were in 2008 but, at least on paper, this alliance looks well placed to challenge the ANR-PC.
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