Paraguayans on Sunday elected a president from the rightwing party in power for nearly eight decades, rejecting a center-left challenger who had railed against endemic institutional corruption.
Economist and former finance minister Santiago Pena, 44, took the election with more than 42 percent of the vote to continue the hegemony of the conservative Colorado Party, results showed.
The Colorado Party has governed almost continually since 1947 — through a long and brutal dictatorship and since the return of democracy in 1989, but has been tainted by corruption claims. They also voted for new lawmakers in a country where voting is mandatory, but only 63 percent turned out.– ‘Back to Jerusalem’ –
Moving an embassy to Jerusalem is highly contentious. Israel claims all of Jerusalem as its capital while Palestinians view east Jerusalem as the capital of their future state.Paraguay is ranked 137 out of 180 countries on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index. Crime is also a concern, with an anti-mafia prosecutor, a crime-fighting mayor and a journalist murdered in 2022 as cartels settle scores.
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