Tag: Mauricio Macri

• Tuesday, October 10th 2017 - 07:20 UTC

  Macri celebrates victory of staunch ally in Corrientes province

  

  Argentina's ruling coalition of president Mauricio Macri celebrated on Sunday victory in the Corrientes province governor race, a significant boost a couple of weeks before the crucial midterm elections. Candidate Gustavo Valdés supported by “Let's Change” grouping won the Corrientes gubernational dispute with 54.06% of the votes.

• 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, September 28th 2017 - 07:07 UTC

  Macri's Senate candidate leads poll in Buenos Aires province

  

  With less than a month to Argentina's midterm elections, the government's Senate candidate in the province of Buenos Aires, Esteban Bullrich has a 39.6% vote intention, three percentage points ahead of ex president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, according to the latest M&R and Query public opinion poll.

• Tuesday, September 26th 2017 - 13:04 UTC

  Argentina's GDP expands 2,7% in second quarter over a year ago

  

  Argentina’s gross domestic product grew 2.7% in the second quarter versus the same period last year and expanded by 0.7% versus the first three months of 2017, the government’s Indec statistics agency said.

• Wednesday, September 20th 2017 - 19:16 UTC

  Maria Eugenia Vidal leads campaign in Buenos Aires province against Cristina Fernandez

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri's has picked Buenos Aires province governor Maria Eugenia Vidal to lead the campaign against a comeback by populist ex president Cristina Fernandez in October's legislative elections.

• Wednesday, September 13th 2017 - 10:32 UTC

  Israel's Netanyahu praises Macri for his efforts to solve the AMIA bombing

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday used the first Latin America visit of a sitting Israeli prime minister to praise President Mauricio Macri's effort to solve the bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center, AMIA, in 1994 that killed 85 people.

• Tuesday, August 29th 2017 - 11:03 UTC

  Go ahead to build two dams in Patagonia's Santa Cruz, financed by China

  

  Argentina’s government approved the construction of two hydroelectric dams in the southern Patagonia region province of Santa Cruz, after holding public hearings as required by the Supreme Court, according to a notice in the Official Gazette on Monday.

• Monday, August 14th 2017 - 07:43 UTC

  Primaries in Argentina show Macri's coalition is en route to become the main political force

  

  Argentina's ruling coalition headed by president Mauricio Macri managed better than expected overall results in Sunday's national mandatory and simultaneous primaries to choose candidates for the midterm elections of 22 October.

• Saturday, August 12th 2017 - 11:08 UTC

  Argentina' final sprint to the midterm elections; the primary cost the central bank US$ 1.8bn

  

  With trading much more relaxed on Friday ended the several days of money market uncertainty leading to Argentina Sunday´s primary election, an anticipation of what can happen in the midterm elections of 22 October when President Mauricio Macri's economic reforms will be put to test in the polls, and hopefully his coalition will increase its congressional support.

• Friday, August 11th 2017 - 08:32 UTC

  Argentina Sunday's primary election: a re-edition of the Cristina Fernandez/Macri dispute

  

  On Sunday Argentines will be able to choose their candidates to the Senate and Lower House for the midterm October elections, in a process known as PASO, which means open mandatory, simultaneous primaries for all parties, but which are not compulsory for the electoral roll.