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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 25 May 2017

PARAGUAY: Re-election crisis resolved, ANR-PC struggles to find unity

The serious political crisis derived by the efforts of supporters of President Horacio Cartes to amend Paraguay’s constitution to introduce presidential re-election so that he could seek another term next year [RBS-17-04] may have been dispelled. But in the aftermath of the crisis the country’s political parties are now trying to bridge the deep internal divisions produced by the crisis. This is especially true of the ruling Asociación Nacional Republicana- Partido Colorado (ANR-PC) party, which is showing signs that the rift between government-supporting (Cartistas) and dissident factions may result in a definitive split.

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