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Former IMF economist and president of Paraguay for the Colorado Party since 2023, backed by Horacio Cartes. He keeps taxes low, ties with Taiwan and alignment with Trump and Israel, and champions agribusiness and the traditional family.
Political axes
Santiago Peña leans further toward free market than 83% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Control is where Santiago Peña stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Santiago Peña sits practically at the catalog median.
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The closest among the 243 ideologies
Current reconciling Islam with electoral democracy through conservative religious parties that run in elections and support a market economy and Muslim values in public life, like Turkey's early AKP and Tunisia's Ennahda.
Pragmatic branch that prioritizes fiscal adjustment, economic stability, and governability through broad coalitions, accepting market reforms and political concessions in the name of short- and medium-term results.
Synthesis that unites free markets and economic freedoms with the appreciation of tradition, order, and institutions, defending prudent change and social stability within the framework of liberal democracy.
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CommunalismAnarchist25%
Evangelical entrepreneur and influencer whose 2026 presidential registration was denied. He advocates an entrepreneurial society, privatization, digital technocratic management and a national crackdown on gangs, combining tax cuts with continued cash transfers.
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A semi-presidential republic in the Caucasus, Georgia pursues integration with the European Union and NATO, maintains an open market economy, and faces Russian occupation of Abkhazia and South Ossetia since 2008.
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A city-state of the Italian Renaissance, Florence united banking and commercial capitalism, factional disputes among guilds and families such as the Medici, and a patronage that revolutionized the arts, letters, and political thought.
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