Tag: Argentina president

• Tuesday, December 10th 2019 - 11:30 UTC

  Peronism is back in Argentina: Alberto Fernández assumes as President

  

  Peronism will return to power in Argentina from Tuesday. The political force will do it in the hands of the elected President, Alberto Fernández, who will go to the Casa Rosada, the presidential headquarters, at noon after presenting the oath in the Congress to the outgoing vice president, Gabriela Michetti

• Monday, December 9th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Brazil will send no delegate to Argentine president Fernandez inauguration, media reports

  

  Brazil’s government scrapped plans to send a delegate to Alberto Fernandez’s inauguration ceremony in Argentina, representing an escalation in tensions between South America’s top economies.

• Tuesday, July 9th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  President Macri's reelection chances improving according to leading pollster

  

  President Mauricio Macri’s chances of winning Argentina’s election this year are improving as public sentiment climbs and the economy begins to find its footing after a currency crisis, according to Alejandro Catterberg, director of Poliarquia, one of the nation’s top pollsters.

• Tuesday, May 28th 2019 - 10:00 UTC

  Polls: Fernández-Fernández headed for a first-round win in Argentina's presidential elections

  

  Barely a week after the Alberto Fernández-Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) ticket for the upcoming presidential elections in Argentina was announced, the unexpected Peronist-Kirchnerist pairing is over ten points ahead of incumbent President Mauricio Macri and whomever he picks as his running mate, according to two polls sponsored by the center-left Página 12 newspaper, it was reported.

• Tuesday, May 28th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Macri's junior partner confirms the 2015 successful coalition

  

  The junior partner of the Argentine ruling coalition, the center-left Radical party, UCR, at its national convention, and after much debate finally agreed to remain as a junior member of, “Cambiemos”(Let's Change), headed by president Mauricio Macri.

• Monday, May 13th 2019 - 17:03 UTC

  Armed man arrested in Argentina’s presidential office: he wanted to meet with Mauricio Macri

  

  An armed man was arrested in the Casa Rosada, Argentina’s presidential office, who tried to enter on the grounds that he had an audience with President Mauricio Macri. The suspect was carrying a box with a Magnum 44 Taurus revolver and was arrested by the Military House before entering the building, according to information from the Government office in Buenos Aires.