Tag: Jaime Durán Barba

• Monday, May 20th 2019 - 10:33 UTC

  “The first time a vice president candidate names her presidential candidate”

  

  “It's the first time I've seen an aspiring vice-presidential candidate name here choice to head the presidential ticket”, said rather ironically Jaime Durán Barba, the main political advisor of Argentine president Mauricio Macri in reference to the surprise announcement of the Alberto Fernandez-Cristina Fernandez ticket for the coming October election.

• Friday, October 27th 2017 - 08:24 UTC

  “Macri is the New Left; PC no longer means Communist Party, it means Personal Computer”

  

  Argentina's ruling coalition “Let's Change” sweeping victory in last Sunday's midterm elections, which had a special chapter in the province of Buenos Aires, was “one of the toughest” ever, and defeated ex president Cristina Fernandez performance was “meritorious”.

• Tuesday, October 3rd 2017 - 07:05 UTC

  “Hard to visualize a scenario” with Macri not running for reelection in 2019

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri is almost certain to run for re-election in 2019, his top campaign adviser said, even as he acknowledged that the leader's market-friendly reforms were unpopular among many poor Argentines.

• Thursday, June 8th 2017 - 09:56 UTC

  Why many Argentines continue to support “corrupt” Cristina Fernandez

  

  A majority of followers of ex Argentine president Cristina Fernandez “believe she is corrupt”, but far from questioning her “they think it is OK”, since “obviously she needed the money to get involved in politics”, according to Jaime Duran Barba, sociologist and chief electoral advisor of president Mauricio Macri.

• Thursday, August 18th 2011 - 06:37 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez “must have done something right” to have 50% support

  

  Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri’s campaign advisor Jaime Durán Barba considered that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner “must have done something right” to get so many votes in last Sunday’s primary elections, and assured that the Alfonsín-De Narváez alliance “is the one that lost most votes.”