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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] |
