Pena wins Paraguay vote, keeps right wing in power

Pena wins Paraguay vote, keeps right wing in power FMTNews FMTWorld

Santiago Pena, presidential candidate of the Colorado ruling party embraces former president Horacio Cartes after the voting closed.

Economist and former finance minister Santiago Pena, 44, won the election with more than 42% of votes cast, results showed with 90% of ballots counted. The Colorado Party has governed almost continually since 1947 – through a dictatorship and since the return of democracy in 1989, but has been tainted by corruption claims.

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