Colorado Party's Horacio Cartes Wins Paraguayan Election
Return to power for a party that dominated the presidency from 1948 to 2008
Millionaire businessman Horacio Cartes won Paraguay's presidential election, returning his powerful center-right Colorado Party to power after the left's brief spell ended in impeachment last year.
Cartes won with a 9 or 10 percentage point lead over Efrain Alegre of the ruling Liberal Party, the head of the country's electoral tribunal said.
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