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Montevideo, November 22nd 2024 - 05:19 UTC

Tag: Juan Manuel Uturbey

  • Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

    Alberto Fernandez candidate stumbles in Salta province primary

    Gustavo Saenz, who collected 43.1% of votes, and although a Peronist, he does not belong to the Kirchnerite branch.

    The just over a million registered voters in the Argentine northern province of Salta, next to Bolivia, went to the polls on Sunday to choose candidates for the coming provincial election of governor, lawmakers and city councillors, to be held on 10 November.

  • Friday, November 25th 2016 - 15:53 UTC

    Opposition governors give thumbs down to electronic vote reform for 2017

    Salta Governor Juan Manuel Urtubey does not believe in herds of lawmakers reined in for a unified vote.

    Argentine province governors of the opposition Justicialist (Peronist) Party now embodied in the Kirchnerite Victory Front (FpV) Thursday instructed their representatives on the national Senate to vote against President Mauricio Macri's proposal for an reform that would include electronic voting tickets.

  • Friday, August 7th 2015 - 06:37 UTC

    “Malvinas March” compulsory singing after the Argentine anthem in Salta province

    The bill approved by the provincial Senate was signed and put into effect last 30 June by governor Juan Manuel Uturbey.

    As of this week it is official in the Argentine province of Salta: after playing the Argentine national anthem, the “Malvinas March” is compulsory in all school, civilian and military events in that provincial territory. The bill approved by the provincial Senate was signed and put into effect last 30 June by governor Juan Manuel Uturbey.

  • Monday, March 26th 2012 - 08:18 UTC

    Argentine province of Salta joins the pack and revokes YPF oil concessions

    Juan Manuel Uturbey, “all companies were given an ultimatum” to come up with an investment plan to boost oil and gas production

    As was anticipated yet another Argentine province, Salta, announced Sunday its decision to revoke a concession from Spanish held oil company YPF. The governor from the north-west province of Salta, Juan Manuel Uturbey, and a close ally of President Cristina Fernandez, announced his decision to revoke oil company YPF concession of the Tartagal Oeste area and his intention to include it in a list of areas that will be put out to tender.