Tag: Argentina General Elections 2015

• Monday, December 22nd 2014 - 23:56 UTC

  Argentine convicts want to form their own political party for 2015 presidential elections

  

  Leader of the presumed innocent hopes to lure 200,000 of his fellow prison inmates to vote for “one candidate.” (most likely FPV)

• Monday, September 15th 2014 - 05:07 UTC

  Free fall for Cristina Fernandez with record negative image and support

  

  The negative image of Argentine president Cristina Fernandez climbed this month to 43.8%, the highest since last May, according to the latest release of the Management & Fit public opinion polls, published in the Buenos Aires media.

• Wednesday, September 3rd 2014 - 09:00 UTC

  Argentine presidential election 25 October 2015, and run-off 24 November

  

  Argentina's National Electoral Register has confirmed that the first round of presidential elections will take place on October 25 2015, with a run-off penciled in for November 24 if no candidate takes enough votes to win outright.

• Monday, August 18th 2014 - 06:13 UTC

  First Kirchnerite governor crosses the line and joins opposition group

  

  The governor from the Argentine province of Rio Negro has decided to cross the line and join one of the leading opposition groups whose head is a strong presidential hopeful for October 2015. The move can be threatening to the government of President Cristina Fernandez if more disenchanted elected officials follow or their lawmakers also decide to cross the line and could jeopardize the government's majority in Congress.

• Monday, June 30th 2014 - 05:32 UTC

  Falklands becomes launching pad for Argentine presidential hopeful campaign

  

  The Argentine 2015 presidential campaign has reached the Falkland Islands. Presidential hopeful and former Vice-president Julio Cleto Cobos is currently visiting the Falklands where he arrived on Saturday on the Lan Chile weekly flight and will spend the rest of the week in the Islands.

• Saturday, May 10th 2014 - 07:30 UTC

  Falklands' Governor role increasingly moving away from an executive position

  

  The role of the Governor has moved away from an executive position within the Falkland Islands according to Governor Colin Roberts, who only last week was inaugurated in the post. Speaking with Penguin News, the Foreign Office diplomat explained what he saw as his role, and how the position itself has changed over the decades.

• Tuesday, April 29th 2014 - 06:27 UTC

  Pope/Cristina Fernandez relation is 'fluid and direct with no intermediaries'

  

  The relationship between Argentine President Cristina Fernández and Pope Francis “is fluid and direct” with a “permanent dialogue and no intermediaries,” Religion Secretary Guillermo Oliveri told a Buenos Aires radio on Monday from Rome, where he attended Sunday's canonization ceremonies for John Paul II and John XXIII.

• Monday, April 28th 2014 - 08:09 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez preparing for the day after October 2015 elections

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez faithful participated on Sunday in a major political rally to celebrate the eleventh anniversary of Nestor Kirchner's victory in the 27 April 2003 elections, but also to indicate how the incumbent Victory Front will be acting ahead of, and after the October 2015 presidential election, to ensure the Kirchner political legacy.

• Friday, April 25th 2014 - 05:51 UTC

  Argentina: Macri suggests to the Broad Front 'an agreement after the presidential election'

  

  Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri rejected on Thursday rumours suggesting a political alliance with the left leaning Broad Front UNEN, born this week and called for its leaders to seek an agreement for “after the (presidential) elections,” in 2015.

• Thursday, April 24th 2014 - 07:05 UTC

  Argentine broad front opens possibility of runoff dispute in 2015 presidential election

  

  Political analyst Rosendo Fraga believes that with the integration this week of the Broad Front, Argentina in the 2015 presidential elections in the hypothetical case of a runoff, would experience a dispute not between two Peronists options, as opinion polls have indicated to far, but with a non Peronist alternative.