Tag: kirchnerism

• Friday, November 12th 2021 - 11:04 UTC

  Opposition candidates in Argentina have 2023 elections in sight

  

  The opposition Together for a Change (JxC) coalition candidates have summed up their proposals for Sunday's mid-term elections with the 2023 presidential contest insight.

• Thursday, October 29th 2020 - 14:27 UTC

  Alberto Fernández confesses that Néstor Kirchner marked a before and after for his life and is his permanent inspiration

  

  “Néstor, in history and in my heart,” said Argentine President Alberto Fernández emotionally, along with a video recalling his relationship with his former political mentor, former President Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007) on the tenth anniversary of the former president's surprising death.

• Tuesday, August 20th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Alberto Fernández is like a matryoshka doll, “you open it and out pops, Cristina, Lula, Chavez...”

  

  Argentine primary winner, Alberto Fernandez is like the Russian mamushka doll, “you open it and out pops Cristina Fernandez, again you open it and out pops Lula, and again, Hugo Chavez”, said Brazilian foreign minister Ernesto Araújo.

• Saturday, August 10th 2019 - 06:29 UTC

  The Economist on Mauricio Macri's reelection chances in Argentina

  

  Ahead of Sunday's primaries' mandatory vote, The Economist published the following on Argentine president Macri's chances of reelection, in what seems a very tight competition with Kirchnerism.

• Friday, April 26th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Second black day for Argentine markets and Peso; panic at a possible return of Cristina Fernandez and Kirchnerism

  

  Argentine bonds and the country’s embattled peso currency fell for a second day on Thursday, cranking up the challenge facing President Mauricio Macri as his drop in the polls ahead of knife-edge elections later this year unnerves investors.

• Tuesday, March 19th 2019 - 08:50 UTC

  Macri admits his father was part of an extortion system during the Kirchner years

  

  Franco Macri's dealings with the former Kirchnerite governments amount to a “crime,” Argentine president Mauricio Macri declared on Sunday in a wide-ranging primetime interview that touched on corruption, influence peddling, the October elections, former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's legal situation and his recently deceased father, Franco.