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Opposition to Cristina Fernandez consolidates for mid-term election in two weeks
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez candidate for the 27 October mid term election in the crucial Buenos Aires province is trailing by eight points his main rival, Sergio Massa who is leading with 41.2% of vote intention according to the latest public opinion poll released by Poliarquía, one of the country’s most respected pollsters. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesSo will we see the end of CFK in 2015 ?,
Oct 19th, 2013 - 08:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0or will she surprise us all..
Lovely article here. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/10390654/Queen-Cristina-facing-the-end-of-her-reign.html
Oct 20th, 2013 - 10:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0Read it carefully. The END is definitely nigh!
Interesting article.
Oct 20th, 2013 - 02:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am not sure Maximo has the charisma to succeed, for which we can all be grateful.
The question is if they manage to keep under the carpet the economical time bomb to whoever gets in power in 2015. If there is no more money remaining in the BCRA by then and the soy bean price keeps falling, with debts to be paid, so the next government surely will be forced to conduct a massive devaluation, sincere of the national statistics, remove massive subsidies.
Oct 20th, 2013 - 03:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0These people will be on the sidelines saying…. “We told you, they can’t handle governing a day without letting the house on fire; vote Maximo K in 2019 so we may return to the glorious good old days of the won decade”
@4 Good points. I don't think they can keep a lid on it until 2015 and I think it will still be a struggle for the next government, though if they play the PR game well they can blame the K's, expose just how corrupt they are and the damage they have done to Argentina.
Oct 20th, 2013 - 04:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That said, I haven't seen a lot of clever politics played out in Argentina.
@5 You may have a point, after all Nestor Kirchner managed to put the blame on the 2001 implosion on to the “Neo-liberal 1990s” and Carlos Menem and Cavallo (Peronist government) as the main responsible of it all, rather than De la Rua (UCR/Alianza) who just received the time bomb in the early 2000s.
Oct 20th, 2013 - 04:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0However the Kirchnerists have managed to shift the Argentine public opinion significantly more to the left even if not the whole of the left votes for them. I think the next government will have a big PR challenge when they will be forced to be the bad guys of the film and start over with the cuts and the devaluation.
The other problem is that the electorate doesn’t like to hear the truth, just look what happened to all the opposition candidates that said and warned that we were heading for disaster in 2011.
#1 A surprise methinks =) Either by standing again or a Lula style transfer of authority. As a number of commenters here are actually saying, the obstacles to a Thatcherite restoration are formidable...
Oct 27th, 2013 - 07:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#2 Silly article. They never can quite decide if Cristina is about to become a dictator or is finished! Neither, actually...
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