Wasmosy well ahead in Paraguay election

Tuesday 11 May 1993 00:02 BST

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A construction tycoon who made a fortune from state contracts under the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner was the apparent winner of Paraguay's first democratic elections.

With 67 per cent of Sunday's 1.2 million votes counted, Juan Carlos Wasmosy, candidate of the ruling Colorado Party, held a seven- point lead over his closest rival, Domingo Laino of the Authentic Liberal Radical Party.

The National Unity candidate Guillermo Caballero Vargas was running third, despite opinion polls which had predicted that he would win.

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