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Brazil & Southern Cone - July 2011 (ISSN 1741-4431)
ARGENTINA: Fernández – a wave of defeats
President Cristina Fernández’s apparently unstoppable path to a decisive defeat of her political opponents came to a sudden halt on 10 July when the electorate in the country’s second largest district voted to re-elect one of her main political opponents, the Buenos Aires City (Caba) mayor Mauricio Macri, of Propuesta Republicana (PRO). Although Macri did not reach the 50% plus one vote needed to win in the first round, and so has to contest a second round runoff on 31 July to decide the final outcome, his resounding lead of 20 percentage points over his main rival, Daniel Filmus of Fernández’s Frente para la Victoria (FPV), strongly suggests a repeat of the 2007 runoff, when Macri defeated Filmus by 61% to 39%.
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