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Weekly Report - 29 September 2016 (WR-16-38)

ARGENTINA: Peronist unity still a long way off

What happens to Argentina’s Peronist movement – currently in opposition and deeply divided – matters a lot to the country’s future. The immediate forecast is that the Peronist Partido Justicialista (PJ) will fail to reunite ahead of legislative mid-term elections in October 2017, and that this will give the centre-right government of President Mauricio Macri some valuable extra room for manoeuvre. Yet Peronism remains a powerful electoral force and many in it are playing the long game, focused on the next presidential race in 2019.

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