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Economist and former finance minister Santiago Peña sees off challenger Efraín Alegre in Sunday's election, ensuring the continuation of the conservative Colorado Party's domination of power.
Future ties with Taiwan are in play as Paraguayans go to the polls Sunday to pick a president they hope will tackle endemic corruption, rising crime and
Forty-four-year-old economist, Santiago Pena has won Paraguay’s presidential election, returning the conservative Colorado Party to government after a tightly-contested campaign that had threatened to end its seven-decade hold on power. The former finance minister had 42.7 percent of the vote with more than 99 percent of ballots counted, a more than 15-point lead over centre-left rival Efrain Alegrem a 60-year-old lawyer from the Concertacion coalition, according to the electoral body, Aljazeera reports.
Paraguya's ruling right-wing Colorado Party consolidated its power after voters elected former Finance Minister Santiago Pena as the country's...
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.