Who is Paraguay’s president-elect, Santiago Pena?
Al JazeeraSantiago Pena, a former central banker, has won Paraguay’s presidential election, seeing off a strong challenge from centre-left leader Efrain Alegre. “He is not a politician who wants a revolution – he wants evolution,” said a businessman with investments in Paraguay who knows Pena personally and asked not to be named. “I think what characterises him is that he has infinite tranquility,” said Lea Gimenez, who served as Pena’s deputy when he was finance minister and was later finance minister herself. “‘Santi’ has a lot of life experience and is a natural negotiator.” In a statement on Monday, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller congratulated Pena and said the United States looked forward to collaborating with Paraguay on shared goals such as “fighting corruption and impunity and advancing security and economic growth”. “Yes, I would go back to Jerusalem,” Pena told AFP before Sunday’s vote.
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