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Weekly Report - 5 June 2014 (WR-14-22)

ARGENTINA: Macri and Fernández meet

Relations between the mayor of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri, and the head of state, Cristina Fernández, have see-sawed wildly over the past few years. On his re-election victory in 2011, Fernández complemented Macri’s “forcefulness” and the left-wing president and right-wing mayor maintained a cordial relationship. Gradually, however, in an attempt to keep the unions on side, Fernández became more critical of the “Macri right”; and the mayor found it electorally expedient to take up the mantle of opposition-in-chief. Now there appears to be a rapprochement between the two; a change which appears to benefit Macri more than Fernández.

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