The Colorado Party Holds on to Power in Paraguay

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Issue Apr 26-May 09 2023: On April 30, 2023, Paraguayans elected a new president. They chose the candidate of the ruling right-wing Asociación Nacional Republicana (ANR, generally known as the Partido Colorado), Santiago Peña, over Efraín Alegre, leader of the center-left coalition Concertación por un Nuevo Paraguay and over the anti-establishment candidate and former Colorado Senator Paraguayo ‘Payo’ Cubas of the Cruzada Nacional. This will be the third straight Colorado administration, bucking the trend toward rejecting incumbent governments elsewhere in Latin America. The Colorado party has been the dominant force in Paraguayan politics for nearly eight decades. Commentators across the ideological spectrum offered clashing interpretations of the election’s significance.

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