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Weekly Report - 12 September 2013 (WR-13-36)

ARGENTINA: Security issues dominate electoral agenda

With a little over a month to go to Argentina’s legislative elections, security issues have started to dominate the campaign. In an interview on 8 September, Martín Insaurralde, the head of the list of candidates for the ruling Frente para la Victoria (FpV), indicated he would consider reducing the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 14. Sergio Massa, a former government minister, now leading the opinion polls with his own Frente Renovador party, has profited from the reduction in crime in Tigre, the Buenos Aires satellite city where he is the mayor. In an increasingly desperate attempt to benefit from some tough-on-crime rhetoric, Insaurralde appears to have taken his own party by surprise.

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