Massa, Scioli and Macri emerge as Argentine presidential hopefuls with most support

Tuesday, April 15th 2014 - 06:22 UTC

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Argentine former cabinet chief and now dissident lawmaker Sergio Massa, the governor of Buenos Aires province Daniel Scioli and Mauricio Macri, mayor of Buenos Aires City outstand as the strongest presidential hopefuls for next year's primaries (August) ahead of elections to succeed Cristina Fernandez in October 2015. Read full article

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CabezaDura2
The only long standing chance Argentina has for real change would be a coalition gov’t between UNEN and PRO. But I see the left wing sectors and the radicals far too miserable, selfish and petty for that. Those will simply content running after those KK 15% orphan voters in 2015.

Simple minds, no new ideas, no concept of reality, no real commitment.

Binner is a useless cunt and a tool.
At least while Santa Fe governance gets absorbed with this drug war that they will fail to deal with his influence and approval will diminish and hopefully UNEN will push him out.

Besides until those 46% realize that these policies are a failure and unsustainable I don’t see anything changing.
Apr 15th, 2014 - 11:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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MagnusMaster
Time to pick our poison... except not really because without a miracle Scioli isn´t going to win and Macri has no chance in hell. Sadly Massa is currently the best politician we have. I´m not saying he´s going to be a good president, just a good crook, which is sadly the most important for a president in this country since the country is owned by the mafia, and if you can´t run the mafia, you can´t run this country.
The Radicals are again trying to play the political charade pretending it will change anything when in reality they aren´t even in the game and they know it. The only thing can do is keeping the Peronists from raping the people too hard and they aren´t even good at that.
Apr 15th, 2014 - 04:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
I am happy to admit that I do not have a deep knowledge of the intricacies and nuances of Argentine politics, apart from an understanding of the ideologies and political history.
I have a B.A. Hons in Latin American Politics, but that was a few years back!

I will be following this with interest. Here and elsewhere.

Thanks for your posts.
Apr 16th, 2014 - 01:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ricagp
I used to think that Binner was the only good option. I saw him as a non-peronist moderate leftist - I mean, thousands of times better than Cristina and the rest of the mafia group.
Apr 16th, 2014 - 08:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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British_Kirchnerist
“Clearly Scioli is now the incumbent candidate whether Kirchnerism likes it or not”

I doubt Cristinita's got the memo that she now has a candidate whether she likes it or not =) One thing I like about her is she doesn't get dictated to all that well! And I don't know how much “incumbency” and “Kirchnerism” can be meaningfully distinguished. Let Scioli stand for himself, if he likes, but Cristinita has already said she'll back her own candidate, and I expect it will be someone who doesn't pretty much disagree with her on everything - which rules out Scioli...
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