Good News For The Long Term

May 2008 | Risk Summary

We are keeping our short-term political risk rating on hold at a lowly 52.1 this month owing to the uncertainties surrounding the upcoming transition of power from sitting President Nicanor Duarte's Partido Colorado (PC) to President-elect Fernando Lugo's Alianza Patriótica para el Cambio (APC). Our long-term political risk ratings on the other hand have received a boost in the characteristics of polity section, leading to an upgrade from 56.4 to 57.4. This is a result of the change of power, which has allayed fears that Paraguay would remain a one-party

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