THIRD TERM
Stroessner Assured (N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) ASUNCION, (Paraguay), May 8. Paraguayans yesterday voted for a Constituent Assembly which will almost certainly lengthen President Alfredo Stoessner’s term of office. It is expected to lift a constitutional provision which prevents a President from serving more than two terms and to introduce another provision strengthening the power of the executive. General Storessner—who has been called South America’s last dictator—came to power in a 1954 military coup and first allowed token opposition in Congress in 1963.
He was elected President in 1958 and re-elected in 1963. He will have to step down next year if the constitution is not changed.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31364, 9 May 1967, Page 17
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