1993 Paraguayan general election

none 1993 Paraguayan general election Paraguay 1990 1991 Paraguayan Constitutional Assembly election 1991 9 May 1993 1998 Paraguayan general election 1998 yes Presidential election 130x130px 69.46% Juan Carlos Wasmosy Juan_C._Wasmosy.jpg Colorado Party (Paraguay) 449,505 41.78% Domingo Laíno Domingo_Laíno_(cropped).jpg Authentic Radical Liberal Party 357,164 33.20% Guillermo Caballero Vargas 3x4.svg National Encounter Party 262,407 24.39% President Andrés Rodríguez Colorado Party (Paraguay) President-elect Juan Carlos Wasmosy Colorado Party (Paraguay) Resultados de las elecciones presidenciales de Paraguay de 1993.svg Results by department yes Chamber of Deputies All 80 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 41 Juan Carlos Wasmosy Colorado Party (Paraguay) 43.41 48 38 Domingo Laíno Authentic Radical Liberal Party 36.82 21 33 Guillermo Caballero Vargas National Encounter Party 17.70 new 9 yes Senate All 45 seats in the Senate 23 yes Colorado Party (Paraguay) 44.05 20 20 Authentic Radical Liberal Party 36.20 new 17 National Encounter Party 17.95 new 8 General elections were held in Paraguay on 9 May 1993.Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p425 978-0-19-928358-3 They featured the first free presidential elections in the country's 182-year history,https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/11/world/governing-party-wins-paraguay-presidential-vote.html Governing Party Wins Paraguay Presidential Vote James Brooke The New York Times April 11, 1993 (or second, depending on the source Lewis Paul H. Paraguay since 1930 1991 The Cambridge History of Latin America 8: Latin America since 1930: Spanish South America 233–266 Bethell Leslie https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-history-of-latin-america/paraguay-since-1930/CBBCEF364F4003F50F2604111C2B6E5D Cambridge University Press 10.1017/chol9780521266529.005 978-0-521-26652-9 subscription), and the first with no military candidates since 1928.Nohlen, p420 They were also the first regular elections since the adoption of a new constitution the previous summer. The presidential election was the first regular presidential election since the overthrow of longtime leader Alfredo Stroessner in 1989. The 1989 coup's leader, Andrés Rodríguez, became provisional president before winning a special election for the remainder of Stroessner's eighth term. Rodríguez had promised not to run for a full term. He would have been prevented from doing so by the new constitution, which limited the president to a single five-year term. The term limit applied even if a president had only served a partial term.https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/06/20/Paraguay-celebrates-new-constitution/5182709012800/ Paraguay celebrates new constitution Cesar Insfran United Press International June 20, 1992 Juan Carlos Wasmosy of the Colorado Party won the presidential election with 41.8 percent of the vote. He took office on 15 August, becoming the first civilian to hold the post in 39 years. The Colorado Party remained the largest party in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, but lost the absolute majority it had held since 1963. The opposition Authentic Radical Liberal Party and National Encounter Party together held a majority of the seats in both chambers, later supplemented by the Colorado Reconciliation Movement, which broke away from the Colorado Party.Nohlen, p417 Voter turnout was 69% in the presidential and Senate elections and 68% in the Chamber elections.Nohlen, pp426-432 Conduct The elections were not entirely peaceful. On election day an opposition television channel was raked by gunfire, and government officials cut the phone lines of opposition parties and independent election monitors. However, the phone lines were restored after intervention from Jimmy Carter.https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/14/opinion/dirty-democracy-in-paraguay.html Dirty Democracy in Paraguay The New York Times May 14, 1993 Despite confirmed cases of fraud, independent analysts concluded that the fraudulent activity had no effect on the outcome, and that Wasmosy's eight-point margin of victory was large enough to offset any illicit activity. Carter's team of international observers noted that opposition candidates tallied almost 60 percent of the vote between them. The elections completed a transition to full democracy in a country that had seen only two years of pluralism in its history before the 1989 coup. For much of the time before 1989, opposition had been barely tolerated, even when it was nominally legal. Even after Stroessner lifted a three-decade state of siege in 1987, opposition parties and newspapers continued to be suppressed, often brutally.History Library of Congress Country Studies In this climate, Stroessner had won all six of his contested bids for president (he appeared alone on the ballot in 1954 and 1958) with 70 percent or more of the vote, only dropping below 80 percent once. Results President Juan Carlos Wasmosy Colorado Party 449505 Domingo Laíno Authentic Radical Liberal Party 357164 Guillermo Caballero Vargas National Encounter Party 262407 Ricardo Nicolás Canese Krivoshein Social Democratic Coalition (PDC–PHP) 1601 Eduardo María Arce Schaerer Workers' Party 1536 Joel Atilio Cazal Broad Movement National Participation 1104 Leandro Jesus Prieto Yegros Social Political Movement Progressive 1087 Abraham Zapag Bazas Liberal Party 881 Gustavo Bader Ibáñez Socialist National Party 655 104142 1698984 Justicia Electoral Senate Colorado Party 498586 20 Authentic Radical Liberal Party 409728 17 National Encounter Party 203213 8 Other parties 20411 0 46504 1698984 0 Nohlen Chamber of Deputies Colorado Party 488342 38 –10 Authentic Radical Liberal Party 414208 33 +12 National Encounter Party 199053 9 New Other partiesIncluded the Workers' Party, the Social Democratic Coalition (PDC–PHP), the Liberal Party, the MAPN, MPSP and PNS. 23275 0 – Other parties 46805 +8 1698984 Nohlen Notes References Paraguay General Category:Parliamentary elections in Paraguay Category:Presidential elections in Paraguay Paraguay Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results