Since 7 am local time Sunday (GMT -4), around 4.78 million Paraguayans started voting for the new President, who will take over from Mario Abdo Benítez on Aug. 15, it was reported in Asunción. As per Paraguayan law, there is no runoff, so whoever gets the most votes Sunday, even by the slightest of differences, will be declared the winner.
Former Paraguayan President and current Senator Fernando Lugo returned to Asunción Friday on a private flight after eight months of medical treatment in Buenos Aires for a brain stroke. Little over a month before the April 30 elections, opposition politicians still wonder whom the former Catholic bishop will favor: former Foreign Minister Euclides Acevedo (New Republic) or Efraín Alegre (National Concertation)
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Asuncion, Mar 7 (Prensa Latina) The Paraguayan Government has received on Monday the credentials of India's Ambassador Yogeshwar Sangwan, the first to represent his country from a permanent diplomatic mission in Asuncion.
Asuncion, Mar 6 (Prensa Latina) The government of Azerbaijan conveyed to that of Paraguay its interest in doing business in fields such as oil, gas and food, its Ambassador Rashad Aslanov reported on Sunday.