Mr Cartes is a newcomer to politics, who only joined the Colorado Party in 2009.
Mr Lugo's 2008 election ended 61 years of rule by the right-wing Colorado party.
Paraguay's revitalised opposition parties believe that the Colorado Party's grip on power can at last be ended.
Paraguay, one of South America's poorest countries, has been sorely misruled by the Colorado party for decades.
Fellow Colorado members have described him as "efficient" and determined to give the Colorado Party a "fresh start".
He eventually stepped down and ran as a candidate for the Colorado Party in the 1998 presidential election.
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In Paraguay , friends launched the presidential campaign of General Lino Oviedo, official candidate of the Colorado party.
By his own admission, he had never even been registered to vote until 2008, shortly before joining the Colorado Party.
The general has said he aims at the chairmanship of the Colorado Party next May, and the national presidency in 2003.
Police said the peasants had been camping on land owned by Blas Riquelme, a businessman and politician active in the South American nation's Colorado Party.
Jorge Batlle, of the Colorado Party, was elected president of Uruguay , beating his left-wing rival, Tabare Vazquez, by a margin of seven-and-a-half percentage points.
But they are outnumbered by those in the long-ruling Colorado Party and the opposition Liberals who do nicely out of the old corrupt and clientelist ways.
But his party, the Patriotic Alliance for Change (APC) and its allies were unable to overcome opposition from the Colorado Party, which remained powerful in Congress.
But it is unlikely to get them, and unless his hosts prevent him, the general can be expected to seek to regain control over the Colorado Party.
The Colorado Party has for the first time chosen a woman candidate, Blanca Ovelar, who has promised to bring a woman's sensibility to a "clearly macho country".
It was his reputation for efficiency and his business acumen which convinced the Colorado Party to name him as their presidential candidate, despite his lack of experience in politics.
The gradual erosion of support for the Colorado Party of President Jorge Batlle, and its parliamentary ally until recently, the conservative National Party, has been accelerated by economic calamity.
The court also ruled that General Oviedo had no political rights, thus seemingly thwarting his ambition to become chairman of the ruling Colorado Party in an election due next month.
The main political force remains the Colorado Party, which sustained Mr Stroessner through seven rigged elections, sometimes giving his supporters more than 100% of the vote by including the dead.
But, he says, the main pillar of civilian support was the multi-class Colorado Party, which the general turned into his personal propaganda machine and source of mobilisation for electoral support.
It was the first time ever that power had passed peacefully to an opposing party, and it marked an end to decades of corrupt rule by the conservative Colorado Party.
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Party colleagues described him as an "efficient" politician who advocated a fresh start for the Colorado Party, which had been an ally of military ruler Alfredo Stroessner, who ruled from 1954 to 1989.
Retired from his post, but by no means from public life, General Oviedo set out to win the candidacy of Paraguay's (and Mr Wasmosy's) over-mighty Colorado Party for the 1998 presidential election, mainly by impugning Mr Wasmosy's honesty and competence.
And GOP incumbents in Georgia (Paul Coverdell) and Colorado (party-switcher Ben Nighthorse Campbell) are worth watching, though their opponents are less than intimidating.
Every Democratic legislative vote was crucial in a Colorado, where the party controls both chambers and the new measures failed to get support from a single Republican.
There may be no better example of the challenges facing the Democratic Party than in Colorado, which boasts both U.S. Sens.
Then the real test will be at the end of August when Democrats convene in the Colorado capital to make Obama the party's official presidential nominee.
The visit to Colorado got underway Friday night when Harry charmed dozens of dignitaries, British expatriates, students and military officers at a cocktail party welcoming him to Colorado.
This year, Colorado lawmakers succeeded while members of their party stumbled in other states.
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