Paraguay’s ruling centre-right Asociación Nacional Republicana-Partido Colorado (ANR-PC) secured a second consecutive term in office in presidential elections on 22 April. The ANR-PC candidate Mario ‘Marito’ Abdo Benítez will succeed President Horacio Cartes after obtaining more votes than his main rival, Efraín Alegre, of the Alianza Ganar opposition electoral alliance. Abdo Benítez did not win by a landslide as had been predicted by voting intention polls but by a modest margin of three percentage points. Meanwhile the outcome of the concurrent national legislative elections points to a more fragmented congress in which the ANR-PC will have a reduced majority. All of this suggests that, while the ANR-PC remains the biggest political party in Paraguay, its level of support is waning. End of preview - This article contains approximately 1405 words.
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