The 2018 Paraguayan general election is scheduled to be held on Sunday April 22,2018
Paraguay s the fourth least-populated country in South America, with a population of 6.95 million in 2017.
Paraguay will hold on Sunday April 22,2018 its seventh general elections since the end of the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner in February 1989.
This election will bring an end to the five-year term of President Horacio Cartes from the conservative Colorado Party.
About 4,241,507 voters have been approved to cast ballots in the elections, including 2,163,150 men and 2,078,357 women. A further 38,170 overseas voters from Argentina, Brazil, the United States and Spain will also take part in the elections.
Voters will select a new president, a vice-president, 45 senators, 80 deputies and 17 governors. Seventeen departmental congresses and Paraguay's 18 envoys to the Mercosur Parliament will also be elected.
President Horacio Cartes and Vice President Juan Afara and Vice-President of the Colorado Party are not eligible for re-election.
There are 10 candidates competing for the presidency.
The leading two are Mario Abdo Benitez from the ruling party and Pedro Efrain Alegre from the Ganar Alliance.
The president-elect, whose tenure is five years, will assume office on Aug. 15,2018
Paraguay ruling party candidate Mario Abdo Benitez wins presidential election
Mario Abdo Benitez, the candidate from Paraguay's ruling Colorado Party, won the presidential election on Sunday, data released by the country's election tribunal showed.
According to results released by the Superior Court of Electoral Justice (TSJE) of Paraguay, Abdo Benitez garnered 46.44 percent of the votes, while his main rival Efrain Alegre from the opposition Ganar Alliance pocketed 42.74 percent, after 99.67 percent of ballots were counted.Abdo Benitez, 46, will take office and begin a five-year term in August 2018 when he succeeds outgoing President Horacio Cartes.
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