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Weekly Report - 28 July 2011 (WR-11-30)

ARGENTINA: The various meanings of numbers

The outcome of the 24 July provincial election in the agricultural heartland of Santa Fe had as many readings as political parties participated. Remarkably, they all found the way to frame the result as a victory for themselves and a defeat for their competitors; the strong anti-Kirchnerista vote in rural areas embodied the electorate’s disapproval of President Cristina Fernández’s rural policies and the repeat of a similar result in the province of Buenos Aires on 23 October could jeopardise her re-election chances.

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