Tag: Mauricio Macri

• Saturday, October 24th 2015 - 08:57 UTC

  Argentina's Electoral Court calls for cool heads on Election night before beginning celebrations

  

  Keen to avoid any kind of turmoil, Argentina's high electoral court called on all the parties running in the presidential election on Sunday to be prudent with their public statements on election night and to wait for a clear trend in the results before making any kind of comments that could affect the vote.

• Friday, October 23rd 2015 - 07:53 UTC

  Macri will continue as leader of PRO party whatever Sunday's election outcome

  

  Mauricio Macri, Argentina's presidential candidate of the Let’s Change (Cambiemos) opposition coalition said he will continue leading the PRO party whatever the outcome of Sunday’s elections is.

• Friday, October 23rd 2015 - 07:36 UTC

  “We will maintain our Malvinas claim, but relations with UK should be broadened”

  

  Argentina's presidential candidate Mauricio Macri’s top foreign policy adviser Fulvio Pompeo told British newspaper The Telegraph Argentina will take a less aggressive stance over the Malvinas Islands conflict if the Let’s Change candidate wins Sunday general elections.

• Friday, October 23rd 2015 - 07:02 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez is falling back, but with great power and plans to return in 2019, says Fraga

  

  President Cristina Fernandez is falling back ahead of Sunday's election, but with great power, and she has the intention of returning to office in the next presidential elections, 2019, said the political analyst and columnist Rosendo Fraga regarding the current political scenario in Argentina. On Sunday Argentines will be electing president, half the Lower House a third of Senate seats, governorships and for the first time Mercosur parliament representatives.

• Monday, October 19th 2015 - 06:59 UTC

  Scioli with best chances of becoming Argentina's next president, if the runoff is with Macri

  

  With less than a week to Argentina's presidential election next Sunday, the latest reliable public opinion polls indicate a very close race with the incumbent and leading candidate hovering very close to the magic 40% of ballots needed to win in the first round and thus avoid a runoff a month later.

• Friday, October 16th 2015 - 07:20 UTC

  Argentine presidential candidates 'at the very limit' but a runoff seems certain

  

  Argentina's 25 October presidential election results remain 'uncertain', and with the current percentages from opinion polls, “at the very limit, there is a runoff in November”, according to Mariel Fornoni, head pollster from Management & Fit.

• Wednesday, October 14th 2015 - 07:26 UTC

  Macri believes an anti-Kirchner front would have doomed his runoff chances

  

  Argentine presidential candidate Mauricio Macri who is running second in opinion polls, defended not having reached an agreement with the Renewal Front's Sergio Massa, (third in the polls) because otherwise incumbent Daniel Scioli would have reached 45% of vote intention which seals any chance of a runoff a month later.

• Wednesday, October 14th 2015 - 07:10 UTC

  If Scioli is Argentina' next president he should have a strong support in Congress

  

  Next October 25 Argentines will be voting for a new president but also to renew half of all seats (257) in the Lower House and one third of seats in the Senate. This means that more than fifty percent of the 130 seats available currently belonging to the ruling Victory Front (FpV) of Cristina Fernandez as the “first minority” within the legislature, will be disputed.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2015 - 08:02 UTC

  Argentine presidential candidate Macri calls for the 'helpful vote' to defeat Kirchnerism

  

  Argentine conservative presidential candidate Mauricio Macri, which opinion polls have him as a solid runner up, has called on the 'helpful vote' arguing that third placed Sergio Massa, has “no chances of making it to a run-off”. The latest polls show incumbent Daniel Scioli with 37/38% of vote intention followed by Macri with 27/28% and Massa 20/21%.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2015 - 07:53 UTC

  Scioli needs to convince some non-Peronist voters to reach the 'magic 40%'

  

  With less than three weeks to Argentina's presidential election, the government's candidate Daniel Scioli has chances of avoiding a runoff but he still needs a couple of points, according to Fabian Perechodnik, head of pollster Poliarquía. In Argentina the winning candidate needs 45% of the votes or 40% but with a ten-point difference over the runner up.