Tag: argentina elections

• Friday, April 21st 2023 - 15:11 UTC

  Argentine President Fernández won't seek another term: “We did not achieve everything”

  

  President Alberto Fernández of Argentina announced in a video message on his social media that he will not seek re-election in the upcoming presidential elections. In his message titled “My decision,” Fernández admitted the main problems of his government's management and described the defeats in economic matters of his administration.

• Monday, April 3rd 2023 - 14:57 UTC

  Alberto Fernandez suggested that he would run against Cristina Kirchner in the internal elections

  

  On Sunday, President Alberto Fernández stated in an interview that Peronism must “renew itself once again and put an end to personalism”. He also emphasized that his ”enemy is not the comrades of the Frente de Todos (FdT) but the Macrismo and the recalcitrant right-wing”. Fernández asserted that the FdT cares about the weakest sectors of society and represents the middle class and impoverished sectors of Argentina.

• Monday, March 27th 2023 - 10:56 UTC

  Macri will not be running again for president of Argentina in 2023

  

  Former Argentine President Mauricio Macri Sunday announced through a video posted on social media that he will not be making a new attempt to reach Casa Rosada this year.

• Wednesday, March 1st 2023 - 10:31 UTC

  Study heralds gov't will change hands this year in Argentina

  

  Argentina's opposition Together for Change (Juntos por el Cambio - JxC) coalition would beat the ruling Everbody's Front (Frente de Todos - FdT) alliance at the Simultaneous, Open and Mandatory Primary (PASO) elections in August by between 10 to 12 percentage points, according to a poll by Opina Argentina published Tuesday in Buenos Aires. The Libertarian movement of Congressman Javier Milei would come in third, the study also showed.

• Friday, February 24th 2023 - 10:43 UTC

  Macri says Larreta entering the primaries strengthens competition

  

  Former Argentine President Mauricio Macri Thursday welcomed Buenos Aires Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta's decision to launch his presidential bid on Wednesday evening through a recorded message.

• Saturday, November 5th 2022 - 11:06 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez reappears in public in electoral mode as crowds called her “President”

  

  For the first time since her assassination attempt on September 1, Argentina's Vice-President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK), reappeared in public at an event that welcomed her with the chant “Cristina presidenta” (Cristina President). She replied that it was possible to repeat the bonanzas of her two consecutive four-year terms in office (2007-2015).

• Tuesday, October 25th 2022 - 09:08 UTC

  CFK's son says former President not likely to run for Casa Rosada in 2023

  

  Argentine Deputy Máximo Kirchner Monday said that his mother, Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) is not likely to run for president in the 2023 elections.

• Friday, September 9th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

  Bullrich to run in next year's Argentine primaries no matter what

  

  PRO Chairwoman Patricia Bullrich has made it clear she will run for president of Argentina next year even if her former boss Mauricio Macri himself decides to enter the race.

• Saturday, June 11th 2022 - 10:44 UTC

  Milei launches presidential bid in fiasco event attended by only a few

  

  Argentine Congressman Javier Milei, who had been slated as a strong presidential contender in next year's elections, Friday staged a major fiasco when in a football stadium with a capacity of 14,000 people, only some 1,500 gathered to see him launch his Casa Rosada bid.

• Tuesday, November 16th 2021 - 22:50 UTC

  Argentine surrealism: turning a major defeat into a victory celebration

  

  “On Wednesday, I'm inviting you to celebrate this great triumph by filling the Plaza de Mayo with militants,” Argentine president Alberto Fernandez announced calling the trade unions and the organizations of picketers in support of Sunday's midterm election “great win”. Likewise one of his most loquacious candidates Victoria Tolosa Paz argued, actually “losing we are winning, and those winning are losing”.