Tag: Federal Peronism

• Saturday, November 21st 2015 - 08:48 UTC

  Macri honors 'Pachamama' and Scioli bewares 'the savage capitalism demon' on closing election rallies

  

  Argentine presidential opposition candidate Mauricio Macri closed his campaign ahead of Sunday 22 November runoff calling for change and unity while the incumbent hopeful Daniel Scioli said the option was between 'a development inclusive project' or the “savage capitalism demon”.

• Thursday, November 7th 2013 - 23:05 UTC

  Advice for Mujica: “professional, not presidential diplomacy” to deal with Cristina Fernandez

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica is fed up with problems with Argentina but must abandon the 'presidential diplomacy' and turn to 'professional diplomacy' because President Cristina Fernandez will not modify her conduct, warned one of Argentina's most respected political analysts, Rosendo Fraga.

• Tuesday, October 25th 2011 - 03:40 UTC

  Argentina formally multiparty, but with an only hegemonic political force

  

  Leaving names aside, Sunday’s election consolidates in Argentina the hegemonic Peronist movement as the prevailing political force to the extent that it not only amply occupies officialdom but also part of the opposition, argues Rosendo Fraga a renowned Argentine political analyst and historian.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2011 - 02:54 UTC

  Reutemann says CFK will seek re-election and downplays clashes with organized labour

  

  A leading and respected Argentine Senator forecasted he is certain that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will be seeking re-election in the October presidential elections, and assured that her recent clash with the organized labour CGT unions’ umbrella are “nothing but mere disagreements.”

• Saturday, March 12th 2011 - 05:43 UTC

  Argentina creates first political wine: ‘El Justicialista’ to honour President Peron

  

  Three times Argentine president Juan Domingo Peron has his own brand of wine, “El Justicialista” following on the name of the populist movement the General founded in the late forties last century and has dominated Argentina politics ever since.

• Tuesday, November 30th 2010 - 16:41 UTC

  Argentina’s 2011 presidential election: a Peronist party dispute, forecasts analyst

  

  The most probable political scenario for Argentina’s October 2011 presidential election is a run-off between two candidates from the hegemonic Justicialista party, centre left and centre right, according to Argentine historian and political analyst Rosendo Fraga.

• Thursday, November 11th 2010 - 20:13 UTC

  Disappearance of Kirchner further splits Argentina’s main opposition group

  

  Argentina’s main opposition group the so called “Federal Peronism”, dissidents from the ruling movement admitted going through a serious “crisis” because of the diverging opinions amongst its leaders, several of them 2011 presidential hopefuls.