Argentine vote intention polls confirm challenger Massa chances for this month’s mid-term election

Tuesday, October 1st 2013 - 04:08 UTC

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With less than a month for Argentina’s mid term elections the opposition to President Cristina Fernandez in the province of Buenos Aires, the largest and crucial electoral circuit clearly leads in public opinion polls and continues to advance over the primary results of August. Read full article

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CabezaDura
I would not rule out the chances of Daniel Scioli and Macri quite yet… I think both of them have far more chances than Binner or De La Sota. If Massa decides to go for the formal endorsement of the peronist party in a internal primary, then he will have to compete against Governor Scioli (the eternal mystery of the absent presence) who has been waiting for over a decade for his moment to see gone the Kirchnerite presidential couple crushing his rise, and yet strangely, after all this humiliation he endured over time by Kirchner and his wife he retains a very high positive image and vote intention in the key Province of BA…
Oct 01st, 2013 - 04:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
But he is still a Peronista and carries all the baggage that it entails.

Even if he gets in nothing will change, it is impossible to change 15M hyena’s spots (Peronista’s do not rate qualifying as leopards being a bunch of cowards).
Oct 01st, 2013 - 07:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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CabezaDura
@2 That is true… I don’t vote peronists nor I would vote for Massa if I lived in that district he is running for, but the fact that he is so quiet and avoids giving any real and clear opinion on any important issue and topic but rather focuses on selling out this image of “the young easy going mayor that knows how to administrate properly his district” sort of thing, means that he very probably is in for substantial change once he reaches power, but he just keeps quiet about it… Saying and talking about some stuff is not good for getting votes, often the electorate doesn’t like the truth very much
Oct 01st, 2013 - 08:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pete Bog
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Obviously smarter than CFK for keeping his mouth shut and avoiding policy statements.

A big gripe about politicians everywhere is broken promises and over optimistic proclamations.

Perhaps he has the sense to see that by replying to the FIG in talks and trading with them(ie calling their bluff) despite Argentine's sovereignty claim, they could at least make some money.

Any threat he poses, by acting rather than the megaphone diplomacy of CFK, may have been nullified forever by CFK/Timerman.
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