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2013 Paraguayan General Election
General elections were held in Paraguay on 21 April 2013. They resulted in a victory for the Colorado Party, which had ruled the country for 60 years before losing power in 2008. The presidential elections were won by the Colorado Party's Horacio Cartes, who defeated Efraín Alegre of the Paraguay Alegre alliance. The Colorado Party also won the most seats in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies. Background In the previous general elections in 2008 Fernando Lugo was elected President. However, he was controversially impeached and removed from office in a 48-hour period in June 2012, following an eviction at a farm that led to the death of six police and eleven farmers. Lugo was replaced by his vice-president Federico Franco. Following the impeachment, Paraguay was suspended from Mercosur and Unasur, who denounced the impeachment as a Congressional coup. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horacio Cartes
Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara (born 5 July 1956) is a Paraguayan businessman and politician who served as the president of Paraguay from 2013 to 2018. He is a member of the Colorado Party. Cartes owns about two dozen businesses in his Grupo Cartes conglomerate including tobacco, soft drinks, meat production, and banking. He was president of Club Libertad football club from 2001 until 2012, and had been the president of the national team department of the Paraguayan Football Association during the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification. Because of his involvement in transnational crime and terrorist organizations, he has been designated as "significantly corrupt" by the United States. Business career Cartes' father was the owner of a Cessna aircraft franchise holding company and the young Horacio studied aviation mechanics in the United States. At the age of 19, he started a currency exchange business which grew into the Banco Amambay. Over the following years, Cartes bought or helped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercosur
The Southern Common Market, commonly known by Spanish abbreviation Mercosur, and Portuguese Mercosul, is a South American trade bloc established by the Treaty of Asunción in 1991 and Protocol of Ouro Preto in 1994. Its full members are Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Venezuela is a full member but has been suspended since 1 December 2016. Associate countries are Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Suriname. Mercosur's origins are linked to the discussions for the constitution of a regional economic market for Latin America, which go back to the treaty that established the Latin American Free Trade Association in 1960, which was succeeded by the Latin American Integration Association in the 1980s. At the time, Argentina and Brazil made progress in the matter, signing the Iguaçu Declaration (1985), which established a bilateral commission, which was followed by a series of trade agreements the following year. The Integration, Cooperation and Developme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Democratic Party (Paraguay)
The Christian Democratic Party ( es, Partido Demócrata Cristiano, PDC) is a political party in Paraguay. History The party was established in May 1960 and was one of the parties that renounced violence as a means of toppling the Stroessner regime. Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p416 However, the party did not contest a national election until Stroessner was overthrown in 1989. In the general elections later that year it received 1% of the vote, but failed to win a seat. It won a single seat in the 1991 Constitutional Assembly election, and in the 1993 general elections ran as part of the Social Democratic Coalition with the Paraguayan Humanist Party, but failed to win a seat. It again failed to win a seat in the 1998 elections, and the 2003 elections saw its vote share drop to just 0.2% in the Senate elections and 0.1% in the Chamber of Deputies election.Nohlen, p431 For the 2008 elections it was part of the Patriotic Alliance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolutionary Febrerista Party
The Revolutionary Febrerista Party ( es, Partido Revolucionario Febrerista, PRF) is a democratic socialist party of Paraguay. It was established in 1951 by Rafael Franco, President of Paraguay from the February Revolution (Paraguay), February Revolution of 1936 until his overthrow in August 1937. History In 1936, Rafael Franco came to power in the February Revolution (Paraguay), February Revolution. A year and a half later, he was overthrown in a coup that brought the Liberal Party (Paraguay), Liberal Party's Félix Paiva to power and went into exile. Franco established the Revolutionary Febrerista Party, named after the revolution, on 11 December 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The party was initially banned in Paraguay, which was under a Colorado Party (Paraguay), Colorado Party regime at the time. The party was legalised in 1964 as it was no longer deemed to be a threat to President Alfredo Stroessner. In the 1967 Paraguayan Constitutional Assembly election, 1967 Constitutio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Union Of Ethical Citizens
The National Union of Ethical Citizens ( es, Unión Nacional de Ciudadanos Éticos, UNACE) is a right-wing populist political party in Paraguay. History The party was established in 2002, although its predecessor, the ''Unión Nacional de Colorados Éticos'', was founded in 1996 as a faction within the ruling Colorado party. It first contested national elections in 2003, Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p428 when it won 10 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and seven in the Senate, becoming the joint-third largest party. Its candidate in the presidential election, Guillermo Sánchez, finished fourth with 13.9% of the vote. In January 2008, Lino Oviedo Lino César Oviedo Silva (23 September 1943 – 2 February 2013) was the leader of the National Union of Ethical Citizens, which split from the Colorado Party (Paraguay), Colorado Party in 2002. Life and work Early career Oviedo was born in po ..., who was released from prison in Sep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lino César Oviedo Sánchez
Lino César Oviedo Sánchez is a Paraguayan politician. He is a member of the Senate of Paraguay for the National Union of Ethical Citizens (UNACE) since 2008. He is the nephew of Lino César Oviedo Silva, usually known as Lino Oviedo Lino César Oviedo Silva (23 September 1943 – 2 February 2013) was the leader of the National Union of Ethical Citizens, which split from the Colorado Party in 2002. Life and work Early career Oviedo was born in poverty in the town of Juan ...; the elder Oviedo was the former leader of UNACE, and a divisive political figure in Paraguay. Oviedo Sánchez became the presidential candidate of UNACE in the April 2013 elections when his uncle Oviedo Silva was killed in a helicopter accident on 2 February 2013. Unace He ended up receiving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partido Patria Libre
Partido Patria Libre (lit. ''Free Homeland Party'', PPL) is a Far-left politics, far-left Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist communist party in Paraguay. It defines its goals as "Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist, Socialist patriotism, socialist patriotist, and Anti-imperialism, anti-imperialist." History The PPL was founded by former activists of the Popular Democratic Movement (MDP) on 3 February 1990, under the name Corriente Patria Libre (lit. ''Free Homeland Current''). In February 1992, it was renamed Movimiento Patria Libre (''Free Homeland Movement''). It acquired its current name in December 2002 after the movement was officially registered as a political party. The PPL has strong roots in the movement for left regroupment and led the United Left (Paraguay) (IU) alliance, which also included the Workers' Party (Paraguay), Workers' Party (PT), the Socialist Revolutionary Nucleus (NRS), the April 19 Indigenous Movement (M-19 Abril), and the Paraguayan Socialist Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paraguayan Humanist Party
The Paraguayan Humanist Party ( es, Partido Humanista Paraguayo, PHP) was a political party in Paraguay. History The party was established in 1985, but was not legalised until the overthrow of the Stroessner regime in 1989. In the elections that year it received just 0.1% of the national vote and failed to win a seat. Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', pp431-433 In the 1991 Constitutional Assembly elections its vote share rose to 0.5%, but it again failed to win a seat. For the 1993 elections the party ran in an alliance with the Christian Democratic Party named the Social Democratic Coalition, but remained seatless. It did not contest the 1998 elections, but entered a candidate ( Ricardo Buman) in the vice presidential election in 2000. Buman finished third out of three candidates with just 1.5% of the vote.Nohlen, p437 In the 2003 general elections the party won 0.2% of the vote in the Congressional elections, remaining seatless. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beloved Fatherland Party
The Beloved Fatherland Party ( es, Partido Patria Querida, PPQ) is a political party in Paraguay. History Established in 2001, the party first contested national elections in 2003, Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p428 when it won 10 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and seven in the Senate, becoming the joint third-largest party. Its presidential candidate Pedro Fadul Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter. The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning " ... received 21.9% of the popular vote. In the 2008 elections it was reduced to three seats in the Chamber and four in the Senate, whilst Fadul won 2.5% of the vote in the presidential election. In the elections five years later, the party's seat share was reduced to one seat in the Chamber and none in the Senate, while the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guasú Front
The Guasú Front ( es, Frente Guasú; ''Guasú'' being the Guarani word for "big", "large" or "great") is a democratic socialist electoral alliance in Paraguay for the general election in 2013. It was formed in 2010 by a merger of the centre-left Patriotic Alliance for Change and the left-wing . It consists of eleven parties, including the Party for a Country of Solidarity, the Tekojoja People's Party. It is led by impeached former president Fernando Lugo, who also ran as a senatorial candidate. Its presidential candidate was Aníbal Carrillo. Electoral history Presidential elections Chamber of Deputies elections Senate elections References External linksGuasú Front's website 2010 establishments in Paraguay Foro de São Paulo Political parties established in 2010 Political party alliances in Paraguay Progressive Alliance Socialist International Paraguay Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aníbal Carrillo
Aníbal Carrillo Iramain is a Paraguayan politician who was the presidential candidate of the Frente Guasú in the April 2013 elections. Europa Press, 9 November 2012 Frente Guasú is a left-wing coalition led by the previous election's winner and impeached president Fernando Lugo
Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez (; born 30 May 1951) is a Paraguayan ...
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Workers' Party (Paraguay)
The Workers' Party ( es, Partido de los Trabajadores, PT) is a Trotskyist political party in Paraguay. History The party was established on 19 March 1989. It first contested national elections in 1991, when it received 0.6% of the vote in the Constitutional Assembly elections, finishing sixth but failing to win a seat.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p429 It again failed to win a seat in the 1993 general elections, in which its candidate for president, Eduardo Arce, finished fourth with 0.2%. The party did not contest the 1998 or 2003 elections, but had a candidate in 2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ... presidential elections. However, party candidate, Julio López finished last with just 0.1% of the vote. Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
