Weekly Report - 12 July 2018 (WR-18-27)

With a little over a month before his investiture on 15 August, Paraguay’s President-elect Mario Abdo Benítez has made significant strides this week in forming his future government and setting out a political agenda. Abdo Benítez, who has embarked on a series of official foreign visits to meet some of his soon to be peers, has made some key appointments to his future cabinet, which suggest he is determined to hit the ground running and that his government will seek to be pragmatic. Yet Abdo Benítez’s actions have not escaped controversy and have been questioned in some quarters.