Mario Abdo Benítez

Place of Birth: Asunción, Paraguay

Date of Birth: 10 November, 1971

Ethnicity:
*50% Paraguayan [Spanish, possibly other]
*25% Lebanese Arab
*24.609375% French [including French-Martiniquais]
*0.1953125% Belgian [Flemish]
*0.1953125% Breton

Mario Abdo Benítez is a Paraguayan politician. He has served as President of Paraguay, since 15 August, 2018. He was previously President of the Senate, from 1 July, 2015 to 30 June, 2016. He is nicknamed “Marito.”

Mario is the son of Mario Abdo Benítez and Ruth María Elena “Manón” Benítez Perrier. He is married to Silvana María Auxiliadora López Moreira Bó. He has two children with his former wife Fátima María Díaz Benza Cameron, and one child with Silvana.

Mario’s paternal grandfather was Juan Abdo Wadha (the son of Raduan Abdo and María Wadha). Juan was Lebanese.

Mario’s paternal grandmother was named Estanislada Benítez (the daughter of an unknown father, and of Martina Benítez).

Mario’s maternal grandfather was named Victoriano Benítez Vera (the son of parents surnamed Benítez and Vera).

Mario’s maternal grandmother was Florentina Gilberta Perrier Galy (the daughter of Léopoldo Charles Louis Elie Perrier and Marie Marguerite Léonie Galy). Léopoldo was a French military officer, from Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, and was the son of François Victor Perrier and Zélie Élisabeth Charlotte Hodebourg des Brosses, who was of French-Martiniquais, Breton, and Belgian [Flemish] descent. Mario’s great-grandmother Léonie was also French, and was the daughter of Paul Galy and Jeanne Marie Rose Gilis.

Mario’s matrilineal ancestry can be traced to his third great-grandmother, Françoise Mazet (c. 1817 – before 1864).

Source: Genealogy of Mario Abdo Benítez – https://gw.geneanet.org