Horacio Cartes
Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara (born July 5, 1956 in Asunción , Paraguay ) is a Paraguayan businessman and politician. He was President of Paraguay from 2013 to 2018 .
Education and professional career
Horacio Cartes attended the Goethe School (Colegio Goethe, a German school abroad ), the Colegio Internacional and the Jesuit Colegio Cristo Rey in Asunción. On the advice of his father, who represented the Cessna company in Paraguay, he then completed an apprenticeship as an aircraft mechanic in Wichita , Kansas .
From the 1990s, Cartes worked as an entrepreneur in various industries and built up a corporate empire of banks, tobacco, beverage and food companies as well as trading companies. He is also president of the Libertad football club .
Cartes is one of the richest people in Paraguay.
Political career
Cartes only joined the Colorado Party in 2009 . In November 2010 he founded the inner-party movement Honor Colorado and was elected as his party's presidential candidate in the internal elections in December 2012.
On April 21, 2013, Horacio Cartes was elected President with 45.8% of the vote. He took office on August 15, 2013. The regular term of office is five years.
After serious unrest, Cartes agreed on April 17, 2017 not to run again in the presidential election. He is also following the advice of the Pope. On May 28, 2018, he resigned as President. The Vice-President Alicia Beatriz Pucheta de Correa thus became the incumbent President. On June 26, 2018, he announced his resignation in a letter to Fernando Lugo , President of the National Congress .
Awards
- 2017 Grand Cross with Collane of the National Order of the Southern Cross
literature
- Horacio Cartes , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 35/2013 of August 27, 2013, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short biography Cartes - Presidencia de la República [1]
- ↑ Horacio Cartes wins presidential election in Paraguay .
- ^ Election results - ABC Color [2] , see also en: Paraguayan general election, 2013
- ↑ Conservative Cartes sworn in as the new President of Paraguay. In: The world . August 15, 2013. Retrieved August 15, 2013 .
- ↑ Full text of the constitution (Art. 161)
- ↑ zeit.de
- ^ Presidente de Paraguay presenta su renuncia ante el Senado . In: El Universal , May 28, 2018.
- ↑ Cartes retira su renuncia ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ABC Color , June 26, 2018, accessed June 28, 2018.
- ^ Pedro Peduzzi, Débora Brito: Brazil and Argentina agree to move closer to the Pacific Alliance . In: Agência Brasil . February 7, 2017 (English, com.br [accessed January 11, 2018]).
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Federico Franco |
President of Paraguay 2013-2018 |
Mario Abdo Benítez |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Cartes, Horacio |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cartes Jara, Horacio Manuel (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Paraguayan entrepreneur, politician and President of Paraguay |
DATE OF BIRTH | 5th July 1956 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Asunción , Paraguay |