Tag: Daniel Scioli

• Tuesday, May 12th 2015 - 06:05 UTC

  Argentine presidential election next 25 October and run-off 22 November

  

  The Argentina government formally announced on Monday the primary and national elections calendar, which for the first time includes direct vote for representatives to the Mercosur parliament. Simultaneous primaries will be held on 9 August while the presidential election on 25 October.

• 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, December 1st 2014 - 09:18 UTC

  Argentina's visiting Scioli was the first to officially announce Vazquez' victory

  

  Buenos Aires province governor Daniel Scioli who on Sunday travelled to Montevideo to congratulate elected president Tabare Vazquez, unknowingly was the first person to officially confirm the victory of Uruguay's next leader a few minutes after voting booths were closed.

• Monday, December 1st 2014 - 08:22 UTC

  Presidential hopeful Scioli sends another 10.000 police on the beat in Buenos Aires province

  

  Buenos Aires province Governor Daniel Scioli has reinforced his 2015 electoral platform promoting law-and-order and tackling crime after inspecting the 10,000 police cadets that graduated from the Juan Vucetich academy. The police officers will be joining the Buenos Aires provincial police and will be soon patrolling Greater Buenos Aires, rural areas and will be part of communal police forces.

• Tuesday, October 28th 2014 - 06:18 UTC

  Reelected Dilma and Cristina Fernandez will discuss “strengthening Mercosur”

  

  The reelected President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff called President Cristina Fernandez on Monday to thank her Argentine counterpart for her message of congratulations following victory at the polls, as well as organizing a bilateral meeting in Australia during the G20 summit.

• Tuesday, May 20th 2014 - 08:00 UTC

  Metropolitan Buenos Aires majority disapproves of Cristina Fernandez, but she retains 36% support

  

  A clear majority of Argentines, 56%, in metropolitan Buenos Aires, which is the most densely populated area of the country, disapprove of President Cristina Fernandez, according to the latest public opinion poll made public but also 36% remain faithful and approve the performance of the controversial Argentine leader.

• 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.

• Monday, April 7th 2014 - 05:50 UTC

  State of emergency in Buenos Aires province overwhelmed by crime and an outbreak of lynching

  

  The governor of Argentina's largest, richest and most populated province declared a 12-month state of emergency following an outbreak of lynching by furious citizens who feel defenceless and 'overwhelmed' by crime. The situation has become a major political issue with magistrates and the Church calling for restrain.

• Friday, December 27th 2013 - 00:16 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez determined to decide on the incumbent candidate for 2015

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez denied point blank any prospects of her running for office for a third consecutive period or any other elected post in the 2015 elections. Member of Congress Carlos Kunkel, considered an 'ultra-Kirchnerite' said on Christmas that at the end of her mandate “Cristina will continue in politics”. However Cristina will apparently decide on the incumbent presidential candidate for 2015.

• Tuesday, October 29th 2013 - 16:25 UTC

  More Kirchnerism from less votes; Election result won’t bring change of direction

  

  By Rosendo Fraga (*) - On presidential instructions, the ruling party headed by Acting President Amado Boudou and Buenos Aires Governor Daniel Scioli endeavored to transform Sunday night’s midterm election defeat into a result living up to the Victory Front’s name.