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{{Short description|President of Paraguay from 2003 to 2008}}
{{family name hatnote|Duarte|Frutos|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Nicanor Duarte
| image               = Nicanor Duarte Frutos (cropped).jpg
| caption             = Duarte in 2006
| office1             = 47th [[President of Paraguay]]
| vicepresident1      = [[Luis Alberto Castiglioni|Luis Castiglioni]]<br/>[[Francisco Oviedo]]
| term_start1         = 15 August 2003
| term_end1           = 15 August 2008
| predecessor1        = [[Luis Ángel González Macchi|Luis González Macchi]]
| successor1          = [[Fernando Lugo]]
| office2             = [[Yacyretá Dam|Paraguayan Director of the Yacyretá Dam]]
| term_start2         = 15 August 2018
| term_end2           = 
| predecessor2        = Ángel María Recalde
| successor2          = 
| office3             = [[Argentina–Paraguay relations|Paraguayan Ambassador to Argentina]]
| term_start3         = 25 October 2013
| term_end3           = 4 January 2016
| president3          = [[Horacio Cartes]]
| predecessor3        = Gabriel Enciso López
| successor3          = Federico González
| office4             = [[Colorado Party (Paraguay)|President of the Colorado Party]]
| term_start4         = 15 May 2001
| term_end4           = 14 August 2003
| predecessor4        = Bader Rachid Lichi
| successor4          = José Alberto Alderete
| office5             = [[Government of Paraguay|Minister of Education and Culture]]
| term_start5         = 30 March 1999
| term_end5           = 29 January 2001
| president5          = [[Luis Ángel González Macchi|Luis González Macchi]]
| predecessor5        = Celsa Bareiro de Soto
| successor5          = Darío Zárate Arellano
| term_start6         = 15 August 1993
| term_end6           = 13 February 1997
| president6          = [[Juan Carlos Wasmosy]]
| predecessor6        = Horacio Galeano Perrone
| successor6          = Vicente Sarubbi
| birth_name          = Óscar Nicanor Duarte Frutos
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1956|10|11|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Coronel Oviedo]], [[Paraguay]]
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| spouse              = {{marriage|[[Gloria Penayo]]|1984}}
| children            = 6
| party               = [[Colorado Party (Paraguay)|Colorado Party]]
| occupation          = {{hlist|Lawyer|journalist|politician}}
| alma_mater          = [[Universidad Católica "Nuestra Señora de la Asunción"|Universidad Católica de Asunción]]<br>[[Universidad Nacional de Asunción]]
| signature           = Presidente Nicanor Duarte firma.jpg
| nickname            = ''El tendota''<ref>{{cite web |title=El desconcierto del tendota |url=https://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/opinion/el-desconcierto-del-tendota-914825.html |website=ABC Color |language=es }}</ref>
}}
'''Óscar Nicanor Duarte Frutos''' (born 11 October 1956) is a Paraguayan lawyer, journalist and politician who served as the 47th [[President of Paraguay]] from 2003 to 2008. A member of the [[Colorado Party (Paraguay)|Colorado Party]], he became the central figure of [[Politics of Paraguay|Paraguayan politics]] during his presidency.

Born into a lower class rural family, Duarte pursued a career in [[Lawyer|law]] and later [[journalism]], becoming a [[radio]] [[sports commentator]] and [[columnist]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-01-20 |title=De periodista pobre a político millonario |url=https://www.ultimahora.com/de-periodista-pobre-politico-millonario-n15814 |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=Última Hora |language=es}}</ref> In the 1990s he got into politics, serving in the [[Cabinet (government)|cabinets]] of Presidents [[Juan Carlos Wasmosy]] and [[Luis Ángel González Macchi|Luis González Macchi]], both times as Minister of Education. Duarte became one of the top allies of the Colorado Party politician [[Luis María Argaña]], inheriting his political clout after his assassination in March 1999. Duarte was elected president [[2003 Paraguayan general election|in 2003]], by a plurality of 37%, taking advantage of a three-way split in the [[Opposition (politics)|opposition]] to the [[incumbent]] Colorado Party. Inaugurated at 46, Duarte was one of Paraguay's youngest presidents, as well as its first non-[[Catholic Church|Catholic]], being a [[Protestantism|Protestant]] [[Religious conversion|convert]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=23 May 2023 |title=Las edades de los últimos presidentes: Santiago Peña, el más joven en asumir el cargo. |url=https://www.hoy.com.py/especiales/las-edades-de-los-ultimos-presidentes-santiago-pena-el-mas-joven-en-asumir-el-cargo |work=Diario HOY}}</ref><ref name=abc>{{cite news |first=Beatrz|last=Gonzalez de Bosio |title=Galería de primeras damas paraguayas |url=https://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/suplementos/cultural/galeria-de-primeras-damas-paraguayas-1572890.html |work=[[ABC Color]] |date=2017-03-11 |access-date=2021-07-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226014542/https://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/suplementos/cultural/galeria-de-primeras-damas-paraguayas-1572890.html |archive-date=2021-02-26 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=abc2>{{cite news |first=|last= |title=Las diferencias entre católicos y menonitas |url=https://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/politica/las-diferencias-entre-catolicos-y-menonitas-698305.html |work=[[ABC Color]] |date=2003-03-04 |access-date=2021-07-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018070838/https://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/politica/las-diferencias-entre-catolicos-y-menonitas-698305.html |archive-date=2016-10-18 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Duarte's administration was marked by a rejection of the path his country and party had taken in the past decade, turning away from [[neoliberalism]] to instead embrace the [[pink tide]] and [[Socialism of the 21st century|21st century socialism]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-04-29 |title=Nicanor impone el socialismo "humanista" en seno colorado |url=https://www.ultimahora.com/nicanor-impone-el-socialismo-humanista-seno-colorado-n35403 |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=Última Hora |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-05-06 |title=El socialismo "humanista" de Nicanor |url=https://www.ultimahora.com/el-socialismo-humanista-nicanor-n36707 |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=Última Hora |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Cuando los colorados fueron de izquierda - Opinión - ABC Color |url=https://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/opinion/cuando-los-colorados-fueron-de-izquierda-49061.html |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=www.abc.com.py |language=es}}</ref> Overall, the Paraguayan economy grew during his tenure, mostly as part of a recovery from the crisis of the 1990s. His support of and from Venezuelan President [[Hugo Chávez]], as well as his proposal to [[Constitutional amendment|amend]] [[Constitution of Paraguay|the constitution]] to allow the reelection of the president, made large parts of the Paraguayan public see him as increasingly authoritarian, leading in part to the defeat of his protégé, [[Blanca Ovelar]], in the [[2008 Paraguayan general election|2008 election]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-03-05 |title=Chávez y Paraguay: Historia de una relación conflictiva |url=https://www.ultimahora.com/chavez-y-paraguay-historia-una-relacion-conflictiva-n590969 |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=Última Hora |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2006-12-31 |title=El 2006: año perdido por la ambición de poder de Nicanor |url=https://www.ultimahora.com/el-2006-ano-perdido-la-ambicion-poder-nicanor-n12274 |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=Última Hora |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-04-21 |title=Six decades of one-party rule ended in Paraguay |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna24232165 |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref>

In said 2008 election Duarte was elected senator, but the Senate refused to swear him in, arguing that it would be unconstitutional, this happened again in 2018. After leaving office Duarte served as [[Ambassador]] to [[Argentina]] from 2013 to 2016, under the presidency of [[Horacio Cartes]]. He was later appointed director of the [[Yacyretá Dam]]. Like all former presidents, Duarte currently holds the ceremonial and powerless title of [[Senator for life]].