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Weekly Report - 08 January 2015 (WR-15-01)
ARGENTINA: Presidential candidates begin to make their moves
With 10 months to go until general elections on 25 October, the main opposition coalition, the Frente Amplio UNEN (FAU), remains deeply fragmented and with no clear frontrunner for the presidential race. Stealing a march on his potential rivals, Hermes Binner, a former governor of Santa Fe and a deputy for the Partido Socialista Popular, launched his bid for the coalition’s nomination in early January, usually a month of limited political activity in Argentina.
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