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Weekly Report - 18 February 2016 (WR-16-07)
ARGENTINA: Macri keeps winning over Peronists
President Mauricio Macri has eliminated taxes on mining exports in another gesture to factions of the opposition Partido Justicialista (PJ, Peronists) open to talks with his government. Flanked by the PJ governors of the north-western provinces of San Juan and Catamarca, Sergio Uñac and Lucía Corpacci respectively, Macri announced that the 5% tax would end in a bid to boost production and investment in the mining sector. The photo op in San Juan mirrored another days earlier when a gift-bearing Macri was snapped alongside the PJ governors of the north-western provinces of Tucumán and Salta, Juan Manzur and Juan Manuel Urtubey. This all fits in with his strategy of dividing the PJ to win crucial support in the federal congress.
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