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Tag: Peronist Justicialist Party

  • Wednesday, November 6th 2024 - 09:28 UTC

    CFK chosen Peronist Party Chairwoman

    Quintela will not challenge the outcome so that the Peronist Party is a united force for the times to come

    The Justicialist (Peronist) Party's (PJ) Electoral Board Tuesday confirmed former two-time President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) as the new party chairwoman after no other contender challenged her “Primero La Patria” list following the dismissal of La Rioja Governor Ricardo Quintela's bid for allegedly lacking the necessary endorsements. CFK won by 13 votes to 1.

  • Thursday, February 4th 2016 - 07:21 UTC

    Kirchnerite opposition splits; Macri now has the main block in the Lower House

    The rupture within former President Cristina Fernandez's Front for Victory (FPV) party was confirmed by party chief Hector Recalde

    Argentina's main opposition party suffered a split on Wednesday after an estimated fifteen of its lawmakers quit, party leaders admitted, handing a boost to newly-elected President Mauricio Macri's hopes of pushing his legislative agenda through Congress. In effect, Macri's political alliance in the Lower House becomes the majority grouping.

  • Thursday, October 31st 2013 - 20:52 UTC

    Argentina celebrates 30 years of democracy and free elections in 1983, 16 months after defeat in Malvinas

    Elected Alfonsin is cheered by millions in Buenos Aires packed streets

    Argentina is recalling with different acts and commemoration ceremonies the thirty years since the return of democracy when Raul Alfonsin was elected president of Argentina. On October 30 1983, and after a long recount of votes, Alfonsín's Radical Civic Union (UCR) secured a landmark victory over the Peronist Justicialist Party.