Horacio Cartes win Paraguay’s presidential election,
Horacio Cartes has won Paraguay’s presidential election, returning his center-right party to power for the first time in five years.Sunday’s election was virtually a battle between Cartes of the opposition Colorado Party and former senator Efrain Alegre of the ruling Liberal Party. Nine other candidates also ran.
Paraguay’s electoral committee says with most votes counted, Cartes won 46 percent of the vote, with a 9 percentage point lead over Alegre.The Colorado Party’s 60-year reign was interrupted by the previous presidential election in 2008.
Cartes said the result was a victory for the public. He called for support to realize his campaign pledges of revitalizing the industrial sector through foreign investment.Paraguay’s former president Fernando Lugo was impeached last year while on a trip abroad, leaving the country isolated in the region.