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Brazil & Southern Cone - April 2011 (ISSN 1741-4431)
ARGENTINA: October 2011: anything could happen
“If candidates keep falling at this rate, we will be the only ones left", declared Elisa Carrió, the confirmed 2011 presidential candidate for the opposition Coalición Cívica (CC) on the campaign trail in mid-April in the Patagonian province of Neuquén. Carrió's assessment was bang on: the Argentine political scenario is mired in total uncertainty with just six months to go before the country goes to the polls on 23 October. The opposition, which managed to unite to convincingly defeat the ruling Frente para la Victoria (FPV) in the June 2009 mid terms, seems to be heading the opposite way in 2011, which may effectively hand President Cristina Fernández her (presumptive) re-election on a plate.
