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Montevideo, May 19th 2024 - 00:08 UTC

Tag: Argentine electiones 2023

  • Monday, November 13th 2023 - 09:17 UTC

    “Scholar” Milei praises Thatcher and loses presidential debate

    Milei spoke to a few who would understand his intellectual stance and was outperformed by Massa, who understood elections are about winning over the rank-and-file

    Libertarian Congressman Javier Milei somehow lost his temper during Sunday's debate with Economy Minister Sergio Massa, insisting that the latter should raise the level of his discourse. He even accused the representative of the ruling Union for Patria (UP) coalition of resorting to a strategy known as “falacia ad populum,” insisting on technical jibber-jabber as if the auditorium were the illustrated faculty made up of a few and not millions of voters.

  • Thursday, November 9th 2023 - 11:19 UTC

    Argentina’s next VP: Rossi uneasy in TV debate with Villarruel

    Rossi criticized LLA’s plans to appoint a foreign minister willing to dialogue with the people of the Falkland Islands

    Although most local media were reluctant to say who had won Wednesday’s debate between vicepresidential contenders Agustín Rossi (Unión por la Patria – current Cabinet Chief) and Victoria Villarruel (La Libertad Avanza – current Congresswoman), it could be determined by neutral observers that Economy Minister Sergio Massa’s running mate was somewhat uncomfortable with the situation.

  • Monday, November 6th 2023 - 09:19 UTC

    Lula’s party announces endorsement to Massa

    Lula is a key regional ally of Argentine President Alberto Fernández.

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s Workers’ Party (PT) announced it would support Argentina’s Economy Minister Sergio Massa against Libertarian Congressman Javier Milei in the Nov. 19 runoff.

  • Monday, October 23rd 2023 - 10:42 UTC

    No president-elect in Argentina

    Presidential Secretary Julio Vitobello announced the preliminary results before 10 p.m., as originally hoped

    Argentina's next president will be chosen in a runoff election on Nov. 19, according to preliminary results released Sunday minutes before 10 p.m. local time in Buenos Aires (GMT -3).

  • Saturday, October 21st 2023 - 10:44 UTC

    Argentina ready to choose next president: What has each one said about the Falklands?

    There are 35.8 million people registered to vote

    Amid rampant inflation, Argentina will celebrate 40 years of democracy when the new president to be elected on Sunday, Oct. 22, takes office. Although five candidates made it through the Aug. 13 Open, Mandatory, and Simultaneous Primary (PASO) elections, only three of them are considered to have a real chance to succeed Alberto Fernández.

  • Sunday, October 15th 2023 - 13:58 UTC

    Argentina: BA Mayor would be Cabinet Chief under Bullrich

    Bullrich seeks to depict JxC as a united movement but her potential Economy Minister has also been linked to a sex scandal

    In a move to convey a message of unity within Together for Change (Juntos por el Cambio - JxC), presidential hopeful Patricia Bullrich Saturday announced that should she be elected, Buenos Aires Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, whom she defeated in the primaries, would become her Cabinet Chief.

  • Friday, October 13th 2023 - 09:26 UTC

    Argentina: “Blue” dollar falls back after illegal exchange parlors raided

    Massa insisted he would push for the prosecution of all those carrying out illegal exchange operations

    The “blue” (a euphemism for “black market”) dollar pierced the AR$ 1,000 threshold downward and closed Thursday at AR$ 980 after law enforcement raids at unofficial exchange parlors led to at least six people arrested ahead of the 4-day weekend, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

  • Friday, October 6th 2023 - 10:40 UTC

    Argentina: Grim future for controversial politician Insaurralde

    Insaurralde filed an affidavit saying he had no foreign currency and then allegedly paid an US$ 20 million divorce settlement

    Things are going from bad to worse for former Buenos Aires Cabinet Chief Martín Insaurralde, whose scandal with high-profile escort Sofía Clerici on a luxury yacht off Marbella splashed Argentine Economy Minister and presidential candidate Sergio Massa's chances in the upcoming Oct. 22 elections.

  • Sunday, October 1st 2023 - 10:25 UTC

    Argentine presidential candidate Milei: “Should we dollarize?” or rather “Why should we keep the peso?”

    “There is no future for Argentina with the Peso”, argues Argentine presidential front runner Javier Milei

    Next 22 October a presidential election will take place in Argentina, South America's second-largest economy and three candidates are competing for the job, Sergio Massa, the incumbent, Patricia Bullrich, from the traditional opposition when two coalitions prevailed in the Argentine political system, and Javier Milei, a declared libertarian, economist, and if published Argentine opinion polls can be trusted, the front runner.

  • Thursday, September 21st 2023 - 10:23 UTC

    Argentine democracy in danger, Lula tells Biden

    “I've never seen an American president speak so much and so well of workers as you have,” Lula also pointed out to Biden

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Wednesday warned his US colleague Joseph Biden in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations 78th General Assembly that democracy in Argentina was in danger as “extremist sectors” were gaining ground.