Tag: Diego Bossio

• Wednesday, October 18th 2017 - 12:03 UTC

  Political spring ahead for Macri, if opinion polls results are confirmed on Sunday

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri seems to be in the threshold of a new political spring following on the expected results of next Sunday's midterm election when a third of the Senate seats and half the Lower House, plus several governorships will be on dispute.

• Wednesday, March 9th 2016 - 05:35 UTC

  Argentine Lower House clears the way for a floor discussion of accord with holdouts

  

  After rough discussions, Argentina's Lower House committees on Tuesday managed to clear the holdouts bill for debate with changes proposed by the allied Renewal Front and criticism from Victory Front lawmakers.The bill will reach the floor next week. If it passes, it will then be up for debate in the Senate, where the situation is similar, with the ruling Let’s Change needing help from opposition lawmakers to ensure the bill passes.

• Thursday, February 4th 2016 - 07:21 UTC

  Kirchnerite opposition splits; Macri now has the main block in the Lower House

  

  Argentina's main opposition party suffered a split on Wednesday after an estimated fifteen of its lawmakers quit, party leaders admitted, handing a boost to newly-elected President Mauricio Macri's hopes of pushing his legislative agenda through Congress. In effect, Macri's political alliance in the Lower House becomes the majority grouping.

• Monday, November 4th 2013 - 05:54 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez wants Argentine tourists to remain and visit Argentina

  

  The administration of President Cristina Fernandez is preparing a package of measures in an attempt to further impede the outflow of hard currency, mainly US dollars, for which it is planning to establish a double exchange rate system. The measures target tourism, a bill of 8 billion dollars which has become dearer than the energy deficit.

• Wednesday, June 13th 2012 - 08:17 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez announces plan to build 400.000 new houses in four years

  

  In an attempt to recover the political initiative and sliding opinion polls Argentine President Cristina Fernández announced the launching of an ambitious housing program aimed at building 400.000 homes in the next four years.