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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 05 May 2017
PARAGUAY: Healing wounds after failed re-election reform
The plans to amend Paraguay’s constitution to introduce presidential re-elections so that President Horacio Cartes could seek a second term in next year’s general elections have finally been put to bed. In the wake of the political crisis and public unrest produced by the efforts by Cartes’s supporters (Cartistas) to push through the national congress a constitutional amendment bill on presidential re-election [WR-17-14], the chamber of deputies has finally rejected and shelved the bill. While this resolves the institutional crisis that griped congress and eases social tensions, it has not cleared up the deep divisions that the initiative produced among Paraguay’s political parties, in particular the ruling Asociación Nacional Republicana- Partido Colorado (ANR-PC).
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