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Macri's Senate candidate leads poll in Buenos Aires province
With less than a month to Argentina's midterm elections, the government's Senate candidate in the province of Buenos Aires, Esteban Bullrich has a 39.6% vote intention, three percentage points ahead of ex president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, according to the latest M&R and Query public opinion poll. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesNot looking good for Think and Enrique's predictions that CFK will take back the country in October.
Sep 28th, 2017 - 02:34 pm - Link - Report abuse -2I'm a little surprised that women tend to favour the right-wing candidate and men the left-wing one, I'd say it's the other way around in most elections I've seen.
I can't imagine this will make her chances any better...
Sep 28th, 2017 - 07:53 pm - Link - Report abuse +4http://www.thebubble.com/cristina-kirchner-there-was-corruption-in-my-administration-its-undeniable/
and this...
http ://www.thebubble.com/jose-lopez-and-amado-boudou-to-face-new-trial-in-corruption-cases/
or this...
http ://www.thebubble.com/trial-of-former-planning-minister-julio-de-vido-in-once-tragedy-case-is-underway/
Hopefully the fact that CFK loses the election will keep her from being a pain in the butt and allow for the country to go foreward without the K “intervention” which has been totally detrimental to Argentina over the last 12 years...........................to say nothing of course of the absolute corruption that has taken placve over this same period..........or even since Nestor K became Mayor of Rio Gallegos - Prov. of Santa Cruz!!
Sep 28th, 2017 - 09:06 pm - Link - Report abuse +4DT,
Oct 03rd, 2017 - 05:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Not looking good for Think and Enrique's predictions that CFK will take back the country in October”
I can't understand why CFK is even allowed to stand for election given that she is under criminal investigation, but I guess that is the Argentine way.
Maybe Reekie has learned his lesson after the opinion polls for the primary elections predicting a tie were proven correct in spite of Reekie's claim that this was the beginning of CFK's resurgence? I said at the time that even that tie showed that CFK was losing relevance and Reekie had a hissy fit, but if this opinion poll is also proven correct then I think it shows that Argentine people are starting to see the benefits of Macri's policies feeding through and are losing interest in CFK. She simply didn't deliver. What a shame. ;-)
Come back Reekie, Think and Trolly. It is quiet around here without your unintentional comedy input. :-)
“I can't understand why CFK is even allowed to stand for election given that she is under criminal investigation, but I guess that is the Argentine way.”
Oct 03rd, 2017 - 09:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I can understand it. There are two aspects: firstly, someone who is being prosecuted has not been proven guilty of any crime, and so should not suffer a punishment.
Secondly, convicting someone of a crime requires a trial and, one would hope, a high standard of evidence. On the other hand, prosecuting someone for a crime requires a much lower standard of evidence, and may come down to one person's decision. If merely indicting someone could cause them to lose the right to stand for office, it would be an invitation for corruption of the judiciary.
IMO it would extremely foolish for a country like Argentina to allow such a thing.
I do agree with you about Enrique, Think and Trollboy. I kind of miss them too. It's boring seeing people state the same things over and over with nobody challenging them.
DT,
Oct 04th, 2017 - 05:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good point. Innocence until proven guilty is a good principle.
In the absence of the entertaining clowns maybe we could dig out old quotes from them to provide some light relieve? ;-)
Think has reappeared, but he seems strangely uninterested in talking about the coming elections. Can't think why!
Oct 05th, 2017 - 11:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Checking back on previous stories, Think didn't comment on the primaries either so maybe he isn't interested? He doesn't seem to support everything that CFK has done either so is not as infatuated with her as Reekie who was predicting a CFK comeback so I can understand why he is lying low. :-D
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