Tag: Esteban Bullrich

• Monday, October 23rd 2017 - 06:25 UTC

  Sweeping victory for Macri consolidating his reform plans and 2019 reelection bid

  

  Candidates allied with Argentine President Mauricio Macri enjoyed sweeping victories in Sunday’s mid-term election, strengthening his position in Congress while dimming prospects for a political comeback by his predecessor Cristina Fernandez. free-spending populist who nearly bankrupted the country during her 2007-2015 rule.

• Tuesday, October 17th 2017 - 11:26 UTC

  Argentina's Macri Let's Change coalition “clearly predominant” ahead of Sunday's midterm elections

  

  There is a “clear predominance” of president Mauricio Macri's “Let's Change” coalition in Argentina and in the crucial Buenos Aires province, ahead of next Sunday's (October 22) midterm elections, according to political analyst Sergio Berensztein.

• Tuesday, October 3rd 2017 - 06:52 UTC

  Macri's candidate leading in the crucial Buenos Aires province October midterm election

  

  Eleven public opinion polls done during the last four weeks, coincide that in the most important electoral circuit in Argentina, (40% of votes), for the coming midterm October elections, the candidate of the ruling coalition, “Let's Change”, former Education minister Esteban Bullrich is leading ahead of ex president Cristina Fernandez, running for her “United Citizens”.

• Thursday, September 28th 2017 - 07:07 UTC

  Macri's Senate candidate leads poll in Buenos Aires province

  

  With less than a month to Argentina's midterm elections, the government's Senate candidate in the province of Buenos Aires, Esteban Bullrich has a 39.6% vote intention, three percentage points ahead of ex president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, according to the latest M&R and Query public opinion poll.

• Friday, August 11th 2017 - 08:32 UTC

  Argentina Sunday's primary election: a re-edition of the Cristina Fernandez/Macri dispute

  

  On Sunday Argentines will be able to choose their candidates to the Senate and Lower House for the midterm October elections, in a process known as PASO, which means open mandatory, simultaneous primaries for all parties, but which are not compulsory for the electoral roll.

• Monday, August 7th 2017 - 06:27 UTC

  Cristina Kirchner/Macri dispute Buenos Aires province Senate seat

  

  With less than a week to the Argentine primaries next Sunday to chose candidates for the October midterm election, the dispute in the province of Buenos Aires which concentrates 35% of the national electorate is particularly interesting as decisive since ex president Cristina Fernandez has good chances of winning the Senate bench.

• Friday, August 4th 2017 - 06:31 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez could become Senator, but overall Macri will have a stronger block in congress

  

  With less than two weeks for the PASO compulsory primaries in Argentina, in anticipation of the October midterm elections, the ruling political party of president Mauricio Macri “Let us change”, is expected to come out in “a better position”, whether it wins or loses with the revival of Kirchnerism.

• Thursday, April 21st 2016 - 12:07 UTC

  Argentine bill proposes 25% higher penalties for attacks on a teacher

  

  An attack on a teacher would be punished with higher penalties than an attack on any other citizen under proposals in Argentina to raise the status of teaching. It is believed to be the first time teachers would have been given a special legal protection in this way.