Tag: Horacio Cartes

• Tuesday, March 19th 2013 - 06:26 UTC

  Opposition candidate leads vote intention for Paraguay’s presidential election in April

  

  With just over a month for Paraguay’s presidential election the opposition candidate from the Colorado Party, Horacio Cartes is ahead with 37.3% vote intention followed by Efrain Alegre who represents the ruling Alianza with 30.3%, according to a public opinion poll contracted by the Asunción newspaper ABC Color and released on Monday.

• Monday, February 4th 2013 - 05:01 UTC

  Paraguay promises international investigation into the death of Oviedo in helicopter crash

  

  The Paraguayan government announced on Sunday that it will invite international experts to investigate the circumstances of the death of presidential candidate and controversial political figure Lino Oviedo Saturday night when the helicopter transporting him crashed.

• Tuesday, December 11th 2012 - 18:29 UTC

  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.

• Friday, July 13th 2012 - 23:34 UTC

  Paraguayan presidential hopeful said the country should in no way abandon Mercosur

  

  Horacio Cartes a presidential hopeful from the Paraguayan hegemonic Partido Colorado said that exiting Mercosur would only cause the closure of industries and the loss of thousands of jobs in the country.