First Lady of Paraguay
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Incumbent Leticia Ocampos since 15 August 2023
Style	Madam
Residence	Mburuvicha Róga

First Lady of Paraguay (Spanish: Primera Dama de Paraguay), also called First Lady of the Nation (Spanish: Primera Dama de la Nación), is the official post of the wife (or designated person) of the president of Paraguay.^[1] The official workplace of the Paraguayan first lady is Mburuvicha Róga. The current first lady of Paraguay is Silvana López Moreira, wife of President Mario Abdo Benítez.^[2]

Structure

According to Paraguayan law, the Office of the First Lady of the Nation depends structurally and financially on the presidency of the republic. The first lady exercises her duties through the REPADEH (Red Paraguaya para el Desarrollo Humano) Foundation, focused mainly in social and health affairs.

With the exception of a 14-month period between 2012–2013, Paraguay did not have a president's wife as First Lady for a decade, between 2008 and 2018. As Fernando Lugo, who was elected President in 2008, was unmarried, he designated his elder sister, Mercedes Lugo, as First Lady.^[1]^[3] After Lugo was impeached and succeeded by Federico Franco, Franco's wife Emilia Alfaro de Franco assumed the post; however, Franco's successor, Horacio Cartes, one day after assuming the presidency, ended the title of First Lady instead of handing it to his estranged wife, María Montaña de Cartes.^[4]^[5]

Partial list of first ladies

First Lady	Tenure begins	Tenure ends	President of Paraguay
Juana Pabla Carrillo [es]	1844	1862	Carlos Antonio López
Eliza Lynch	1862	1869	Francisco Solano López
Clara Recalde	1870	1870	Facundo Machaín
Vacant	1870	1871	Cirilo Antonio Rivarola
Ercilia Bogado	1871	1874	Salvador Jovellanos
María Concepción Díaz de Bedoya	1874	1877	Juan Bautista Gill
Etelvina Trinidad Mercedes Velilla	1877	1878	Higinio Uriarte
Atanasia Escato	1878	1880	Cándido Bareiro
María Concepción Díaz de Bedoya	1880	1886	Bernardino Caballero
Ramona Ignacia Garcete	1886	1890	Patricio Escobar
Rosa Peña Guanes	1890	1894	Juan Gualberto González
Ramona Bareiro Caballero	1894	1894	Marcos Morínigo
Casiana Isasi	1894	1898	Juan Bautista Egusquiza
Josefina Rivarola	1898	1902	Emilio Aceval
Margarita Salomoni	1902	1902	Andrés Héctor Carvallo
Josefa Rojas	1902	1904	Juan Antonio Escurra
Regina Corti Onetto	1904	1905	Juan Bautista Gaona
Marcelina Allende	1905	1906	Cecilio Báez
María del Carmen de la Mora Isasi	1906 – 1908	1908	Benigno Ferreira
Adela da Fontoura Lima	1908	1910	Emiliano González Navero
Emilia Victoria Alfaro	1910	1911	Manuel Gondra
Vacant	August 15, 1916	June 5, 1919	Manuel Franco {unmarried)
Silvia Ester Heisecke	August 16, 1937	August 15, 1939	Félix Paiva
Julia Miranda Cueto	August 15, 1939	September 7, 1940	José Félix Estigarribia
Dolores Ferrari	September 7, 1940	June 3, 1948	Higinio Morínigo
Escolástica Patiño (deceased prior to presidency)	September 11, 1949	May 8, 1954	Federico Chávez (widowed)
Lilia Isabel Arza	May 4, 1954	August 15, 1954	Tomás Romero Pereira
Ligia Stroessner [es]	August 15, 1954	February 3, 1989	Alfredo Stroessner
Nélida Reig Castellanos	February 3, 1989	August 15, 1993	Andrés Rodríguez Pedotti
María Teresa Carrasco	August 15, 1993	August 15, 1998	Juan Carlos Wasmosy
Mirtha Leonor Gusinky	August 15, 1998	March 29, 1999	Raúl Cubas Grau
Susana Galli Romañach	March 29, 1999	August 15, 2003	Luis Ángel González Macchi
Gloria Penayo	August 15, 2003	August 15, 2008	Nicanor Duarte Frutos
Vacant	August 15, 2008	June 22, 2012	Fernando Lugo
Emilia Alfaro	June 22, 2012	August 15, 2013	Federico Franco
Vacant	August 15, 2013	August 15, 2018	Horacio Cartes
Silvana López Moreira	August 15, 2018	August 15, 2023	Mario Abdo Benítez
Leticia Ocampos	August 15, 2023	Present	Santiago Peña