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.
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.
Some 4.8 million of the South American country’s 7.5 million people were eligible to vote in the election for the president and legislature.“Today, we are not celebrating a personal triumph, we are celebrating the victory of a people who with their vote chose the path of social peace, dialogue, fraternity and national reconciliation.
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