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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 27 April 2017
Presidential re-election drive tips Paraguay into crisis
The attempt by a group of legislators to surreptitiously push through the national congress a constitutional amendment bill introducing presidential re-election has engulfed Paraguay in a major political crisis. Paraguay’s 1992 constitution expressly prohibits presidential re-election and is clear that introducing it cannot be done via an amendment but only via a comprehensive constitutional reform (the drafting of a new constitution). This fact has led those opposed to presidential re-election to accuse those pushing the constitutional amendment bill of attempting to breach the constitutional order in their efforts to change the constitution this year to allow President Horacio Cartes to seek re-election in next year’s general elections. The anti-re-election camp organised mass demonstrations outside the national congress which descended into deadly violence and heightened political tensions.
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