Tag: Frente de Todos

• Wednesday, October 26th 2022 - 19:26 UTC

  Argentine ruling party creates yet a new tax by a 1-vote difference referred as “the Milei tax”

  

  Argentina's Lower House passed the 2023 budget bill in the wee hours of Wednesday. Among the most significant changes was an Airport Security tax which will reportedly help support the Airport Security Police (PSA).

• Thursday, April 28th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  Argentina: Alberto Fernández and CFK to run separately in 2023?

  

  Rumors are mounting in Buenos Aires that President Alberto Fernández will seek reelection on a ticket of his own while Vice President (and former President) Cristina Fernández de Kirchner would attempt to return to Casa Rosada in a separate bid.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  Argentina shocked by brochure advising on safer consumption of drugs

  

  Argentine opposition Deputy Waldo Wolff of the Macrist Juntos por el Cambio (JxC - Together for Change) Monday announced he would be filing a lawsuit against the City Council of Morón, a district in the western outskirt of Buenos Aires, after a series of leaflets advising on the cautious use of drugs sparked nationwide controversy.

• Tuesday, March 29th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  Argentine Senators launch bid to tax assets abroad and pay off the IMF

  

  Argentina's ruling Frente de Todos (FdT) lawmakers Monday suggested a new tax on assets and money not declared to the local Treasury and kept abroad be levied in order to pay the country's debt with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentine Senate gives thumbs up to IMF deal

  

  Argentina's Senate Thursday approved the agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to repay the US$ 45 billion borrowed under the administration of former President Mauricio Macri in 2018.

• Monday, December 20th 2021 - 23:59 UTC

  “Malvinas Argentinas,” Chile's President-elect once told UK Ambassador

  

  Argentina's ruling Frente de Todos (FdT) was quick to celebrate Gabriel Boric's win in Sunday's presidential runoff in Chile.

• Friday, November 19th 2021 - 09:44 UTC

  Argentina's ruling party retains Lower House majority

  

  Argentina's ruling coalition Everybody's Front (Frente de Todos - FdT) finally retained a majority within the Lower House after vote-counting in the province of La Rioja granted it the two seats still in doubt.

• Tuesday, November 16th 2021 - 22:50 UTC

  Argentine surrealism: turning a major defeat into a victory celebration

  

  “On Wednesday, I'm inviting you to celebrate this great triumph by filling the Plaza de Mayo with militants,” Argentine president Alberto Fernandez announced calling the trade unions and the organizations of picketers in support of Sunday's midterm election “great win”. Likewise one of his most loquacious candidates Victoria Tolosa Paz argued, actually “losing we are winning, and those winning are losing”.

• Monday, November 15th 2021 - 09:59 UTC

  Argentina’s ruling party loses Congress majority

  

  Preliminary but seemingly conclusive results from Argentina's mid-term elections Sunday showed the ruling party of President Alberto Fernández and Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner would be losing its majority in Congress after 38 years.

• Tuesday, September 28th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentina's ruling party keeps losing political ground, poll says

  

  Argentina's ruling Frente de Todos (FdT) coalition looks poised to a defeat at Nov- 14's mid-term elections worse than the one suffered Sept. 14 during the Mandatory, Open and Sim, simultaneous Primary (PASO) elections, according to a Solmoirago poll released Monday.