Nicanor Duarte Frutos
| Nicanor Duarte Frutos | |
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| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office August 15, 2003 | |
| Vice President(s) | Luis Castiglioni Joria |
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| Preceded by | Luis Ángel González Macchi |
| Succeeded by | Incumbent |
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| Born | October 11, 1956 Coronel Oviedo, Caaguazú, Paraguay |
| Political party | Asociación Nacional Republicana - Partido Colorado (ANR-PC) |
| Spouse | María Gloria Penayo Solaeche |
Óscar Nicanor Duarte Frutos (born October 11, 1956) is the current President of Paraguay. He has served since 2003.
Born in Coronel Oviedo, Caaguazú, Duarte grew up during the Alfredo Stroessner dictatorship and was affiliated to Stroessner's Colorado Party at the age of 14 while attending high school in Coronel Oviedo. Duarte is married to María Gloria Penayo Solaeche and they have six children.
In 1974, Duarte Frutos received a bachelor's degree in Sciences and Letters. In 1984 he obtained a law degree from the Catholic University of Asunción and in 1989 a doctorate from the National University of Asunción. Later he joined the ruling Colorado party. The preliminary candidate for the Colorados in December 1992 was the former minister of Integration Juan Carlos Wasmosy Monti who in August 1993 became the president of Paraguay. Wasmosy appointed Duarte as his Minister of Education and Culture. In 1996, a political controversy led Duarte to leave the ruling party. In February 1997 he resigned as a minister and joined the Reconciliacion Colorada Movement (MRC).
In January 2001, he stood for the presidency of the governing party of ANR-PC for the period 2001-2004. He obtained the presidential nomination of his party on December 22, 2002 and contested the national election of April 27, 2003. He was proclaimed president with 37.1% of the votes, ahead of Franco with 24%, Fadul with 21.3% and Sánchez with 13.5% of the votes. He took office on August 15 for the presidential term 2003-2008, becoming the eleventh consecutive ANR-PC president.
President George W. Bush and President Nicanor Duarte of Paraguay last talked in the Oval Office Friday, Sept. 26, 2003 at White House.
| Preceded by: Luis Ángel González Macchi | President of Paraguay 2003- | Succeeded by: incumbent |
| Presidents of Paraguay |  | |
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| C.A. López | F.S. López | Machain* | Rivarola | Jovellanos* | Gill | Uriarte | Bareiro | Caballero | Escobar | J.G. González | M. Morínigo* | Egusquiza | Aceval | Carvallo* | Escurra | Gaona* | Báez* | Ferreira | González Navero* | Gondra | Jara* | Rojas* | Peña* | González Navero* | Schaerer | M. Franco | Montero* | Gondra | Eus. Ayala* | El. Ayala* | Riart* | El. Ayala | Guggiari | Eus. Ayala | R. Franco* | Paiva | Estigarribia | H. Morínigo | Frutos* | J.N. González | Rolón* | Molas | Chaves | Romero* | Stroessner | Rodríguez | Wasmosy | Cubas | González Macchi | Duarte * acting, interim, or provisional | ||
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