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Cristina Fernandez “must have done something right” to have 50% support
Jaime Durán Barba, who works for Macri is considered among the top political advisors Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri’s campaign advisor Jaime Durán Barba considered that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner “must have done something right” to get so many votes in last Sunday’s primary elections, and assured that the Alfonsín-De Narváez alliance “is the one that lost most votes.”
“Many say Cristina won because the opposition was wrong. To me it’s not like that. To me her administration must have done something right to have 50% of the population vote for her” the Ecuadorean born political strategist said.
The publicist compared Cristina Fernández victory to the one the Conservative PRO party celebrated last July 31st when Macri was re-elected with a landslide as Buenos Aires City mayor. “Macri’s campaign was similar to Cristina’s,” he explained.
“Many times silence is more relevant than music,” he said, adding that people “vote for whatever they feel is convenient for them.”
However, Durán Barba criticised the opposition and targeted runner ups Alfonsín-De Narváez Alliance specifically, who were running for the presidential nomination and the Buenos Aires governance respectively.
“The Alfonsín-De Narváez alliance is the one that lost most votes,” adding that “Alfonsín’s and Duhalde’s performances were modest and poor”.
He also questioned the Civic Coalition presidential candidate Elisa Carrió, who came in sixth place after obtaining a 3% of the votes. “Her problem is that she lost her credibility after making so many accusations,” he assured.
On another note, regarding candidate Socialist Hermes Binner, he said that “he did great things for this province,” but “he can’t go much further than that in an election”.
The Argentine Progressive Front of Binner would like to re-edit the success of Uruguay’s Broad Front coalition that has ruled the City of Montevideo for over two decades and won the presidency for the second time in 2009. The Argentine version contracted Uruguay’s Broad Front political strategist Esteban Valenti as an advisor for the primaries and presidential election of October 23.
In the August 14 primaries, CFK received 50.07% of the vote; Raul Alfonsin, 12.17%; Eduardo Duhalde, 12.16% and Hermes Binner, 10.26%.
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Aug 18th, 2011 - 10:13 am 0This is high-level perspicacity from such an august political analyst.
I remember once my partner saying that I must have done something right - she was not being particularly enthusiastic about my general performance.
The English have a phrase for it:
Damning with Faint Praise.
“...must have done something right”.
Aug 18th, 2011 - 03:59 pm 0That depends on the point of view: 50 % of the args are belonging to the “poor”. From their point of view the 30 % increasement of salaries throughout the country are very comfortable. This money is stolen from many sources. One of them are the billions of unpaid loans to national and international creditors. These increasements will extend the inflation rate heavily from now already about 25 % and they will eat up the advantage of higher salaries. So the “poor” will cry for more to meet the higher inflation. But not long and the source will stop. Than ck, woodoo, and moreno need fresh money which they will have to pay high interest rates for.
nope, this man is wrong. I second every word willi1 has said. More shanty towns, more homeless people, more babies(thousands) with no food, no house, no clothes, government gives those people 180 pesos per child. Entire families are relying on those 46 dollars per child, they don't work, they live thanks to those who work, but for this government, those people are not unemployed and are not poor anymore hahaha, crazy, isn't it? I heard a woman saying that she receives 1500 pesos and she is unemployed, of course!, and she is very happy, living in a shanty town, she loves Cristina, she's so good! She lives in a house made of cardboard and better than that, she is waiting her first grandchild, from one of her daughters who is 13 years old!!! Isn't that great??? When I heard her saying that I said to myself, right, they're oh so right! I am the wrong one, and poverty and misery is actually good!!! and what do you think will happen to that baby gir/boy? Yes, the good old Cristina will give the new child 180 pesos!!! One of her daughters is 13 and the others are older or younger, all of them can have more babies and receive 180 pesos per child, so they can build their lives around free money, like a coupon but better! This woman and her children, is not the only case, there are thousands. Thank you Cristina. Cristina government is built on poverty, misery and the legalization of the industry of poverty, but let's see what the end of this monstrosity will be, anyway, I am ready to enjoy it like I am watching a movie in 3D :)
Aug 18th, 2011 - 04:45 pm 0PS: People of the Falklands, if you see an argentine trying to reach the falklands, shoot him before it's too late!
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