Paraguay to have the initial lady president
ASUNCION: Paraguay will have a lady boss for a initial time in a history, during slightest temporarily, after effusive personality Horacio Cartes stepped down Monday forward of schedule.
Vice President Alicia Pucheta, 68, will finish Cartes´s charge after he quiescent to turn a senator.
On Aug 15, associate regressive Mario Abdo Benitez, inaugurated in Apr 22 polls, will start his five-year tenure as boss of one of Latin America´s lowest countries.
The council is due to endorse Cartes´s abdication and broadcast Pucheta as halt boss on Wednesday.
Opposed to a legalization of abortion, Pucheta is from a worried Colorado Party, that has been in energy in Asuncion for decades.
Opposition Senator Desiree Masi pronounced she does not see Pucheta´s assignment as an allege for women in Paraguay.
“A lady who has shown her finish acquiescence to those in energy does not paint us,” she said. “One day, a lady will be come to energy as she should, by a list box.”
But Lilian Samaniego, a senator from a Colorado Party, hailed a former lawyer´s advent to a position as an instance to “motivate Paraguayan women to continue to quarrel for genuine equivalence of event with men.”
Paraguay has only 8 women among a 45 senators, and 11 among a 80 members of a reduce house.
Cartes´s abdication had been approaching given he was inaugurated to a Senate in a Apr elections. The new senators are to be sworn in on Jun 30.
Landlocked Paraguay — sandwiched between Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil — enjoyed unchanging mercantile expansion during tobacco lord Cartes´s 5 years in power, though unsuccessful to shake off determined poverty, crime and drug trafficking.
It stays a land of contrasts, still noted by a 1954-1989 persecution of ubiquitous Alfredo Stroessner.
Despite an central debate opposite autochthonous corruption, Paraguay stays 135th out of 180 countries on a 2017 crime index of Transparency International.