Directorio Legislativo

The Partido Colorado puts at stake its historical continuity at the head of the Executive Branch before Concertación Nacional

This Sunday, April 30, Paraguayan citizens will go to the polls to elect president and vice-president for the next five years. Legislators will also be elected to renew the entire Congress. Without the possibility of a second round, the most voted will take office. The ruling party Partido Colorado leads the average of polls surveyed, …

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Presidential approval data in Latin America, according to a new edition of the “Image of Power” report

In this new issue of Image of Power, we present the presidential approval data for the first two months of the year, and analyze some of the most outstanding processes.   Andrés López Obrador and Luis Abinader lead the approval ranking with rates exceeding 60%. In the middle range of the scale we find two new …

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MORENA aiming to deepen its legislative and territorial power to promote “Fourth Transformation”

On June 6, national legislative elections will be held to renew the entire Chamber of Deputies. Also, at the subnational level, 15 executive and 30 legislative seats will be voted for. Amid questions over the handling of the health crisis produced by the pandemic and in a climate of political scandals and violence that has cost …

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Guillermo Lasso defeats Correa’s candidate to become President-elect for 2021-2025

On Sunday, April 11, a presidential run-off election was held in Ecuador. With almost 99% of ballots counted, the winner has been announced as Guillermo Lasso (CREO-PSC), who with 52.4% of the votes trimphed over this rival Andrés Arauz (UNES), endorsed by ex-President Correa. Lasso has stated “the country will take a different course from that …

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Respond. Recover. Renew

Sanjay Pradhan is the Chief Executive Officer of the Open Government Partnership (OGP). María Baron is the Executive Director of Directorio Legislativo and the civil society co-chair of the OGP Steering Committee with the Republic of Korea.Open Response + Recovery + RenewalLearn about the next phase of OGP’s Open Response + Open Recovery campaign: Open …

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Latin American governments gave legal and tax benefits to pharmaceutical companies in vaccine purchases

One year after the first cases of coronavirus were identified in Latin America, an analysis into the legal measures published by governments finds that 13 Latin American countries changed their laws in order to purchase the Covid-19 vaccine between September 2020 and February 2021. This is a Red Palta report.  The mass purchase of Covid-19 …

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