Tag: Cristina Fernandez 2019

• Tuesday, August 27th 2019 - 10:56 UTC

  Argentines fear of a repeat of the “corralitos” of 1989 and 2002

  

  It happened in 1989. It happened in 2002. Argentines who are old enough to remember do not want to go through it again.

• Wednesday, August 14th 2019 - 08:08 UTC

  Argentina’s political rivals must face up to urgent economic realities

  

  By Héctor Torres (*) for Financial Times - Argentina went to the polls on Sunday to choose the candidates in the presidential election to be held on October 27. However, there were no competing candidates as all the main parties only presented one option.

• Tuesday, August 13th 2019 - 06:38 UTC

  Bolsonaro warns of Argentine exodus into Brazil if the “leftist scoundrel” Cristina Fernandez returns to office

  

  Conservative president Jair Bolsonaro warned on Monday that Brazil could see a wave of migrants fleeing Argentina if a presidential election in that country returns leftist politicians to power, after their strong showing in a Sunday primary vote.

• Tuesday, June 11th 2019 - 09:19 UTC

  President Macri and Cristina Fernandez share similar high rejection levels

  

  As the date approaches (end of June) for all political groupings in Argentina to have their hopefuls nominated and ready to compete in the August open, mandatory and simultaneous primaries for each party to select their candidates for the presidential election next October, spotlights are following the polarized scenario with Cristina Fernandez and her presidential candidate on the one side, and president Mauricio Macri's reelection strategy on the other.

• Thursday, May 30th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Unions and opposition promote 24-hour strike paralyzing Argentina

  

  Opponents of Argentina's President Mauricio Macri launched a 24-hour strike on Wednesday to protest the government's inability to reduce inflation that has reached 55% over the past year. The strike paralyzed public transport while all flights to and from the country's airports were canceled. Banks, schools and universities remained closed.

• 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.

• Monday, May 20th 2019 - 10:33 UTC

  “The first time a vice president candidate names her presidential candidate”

  

  “It's the first time I've seen an aspiring vice-presidential candidate name here choice to head the presidential ticket”, said rather ironically Jaime Durán Barba, the main political advisor of Argentine president Mauricio Macri in reference to the surprise announcement of the Alberto Fernandez-Cristina Fernandez ticket for the coming October election.

• Friday, October 23rd 2015 - 07:02 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez is falling back, but with great power and plans to return in 2019, says Fraga

  

  President Cristina Fernandez is falling back ahead of Sunday's election, but with great power, and she has the intention of returning to office in the next presidential elections, 2019, said the political analyst and columnist Rosendo Fraga regarding the current political scenario in Argentina. On Sunday Argentines will be electing president, half the Lower House a third of Senate seats, governorships and for the first time Mercosur parliament representatives.