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Paraguayan opposition nominates candidate for April 2013 presidential election
Banker and tobacco businessman Horacio Cartes will be the presidential candidate of Paraguay’s main opposition party, Colorado, for the April 2013 elections having won last Sunday the primary election with almost 60% of the vote. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWait for it ! Trolls will say its anti democratic. Dont think that pantomime is going to be worth seeing when they start up
Dec 11th, 2012 - 10:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1 It's only the election of a party candidate!
Dec 12th, 2012 - 10:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0Lugo should run again so that LatAm could see who the people of Paraguay really want as their President. Then, if a second “legislative coup” were to occur, it would be just too obvious what the Colorados were up to; (literally) “business as usual”.
Dec 12th, 2012 - 05:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#3: 'Lugo should run again' .... can't MAKE him run, it's undemocratic, but, in the circumstances, it is attractive as an idea.
Dec 12th, 2012 - 09:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0'The Colorado party lost its 61 year of uninterrupted hegemony on April 2008 when former bishop Fernando Lugo was elected president by a catch-all coalition which rapidly evaporated leaving him exposed and limited in his legislative agenda since he lacked the necessary support in Parliament.'
A good brief background.
It speaks volumes for a county needing to have, at all times, a viable opposition. A 'rainbow alliance' is a bit like a wartime all-party coalition .... if it fails, there is nowhere to go.
When Lugo visited Uruguay he was asked were there any results of the visit. Some wag in the press gallery chimed in “Well maybe we will see the results in nine months”
Dec 13th, 2012 - 12:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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