Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of whether the general election held in Paraguay on 22 April 2018 was conducted in a free, fair and transparent manner.

The EU Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) in Paraguay has issued a preliminary statement that the general election held on 22 April 2018 was "well-administered" but held in a "context of institutional weakness". Our diplomats in Paraguay took part in the observation mission and we agree with that initial assessment. We look forward to the publication of the EU EOM final report in June.