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Brazil & Southern Cone - September 2011 (ISSN 1741-4431)

ARGENTINA: Peronists re-align ahead of (expected) Fernández victory

Ricardo Alfonsín, the opposition presidential candidate for the Unión para el Desarrollo Social (Udeso), no longer has a campaign budget, he has had to vacate the campaign office and his foreign PR advisors have left him. Francisco de Narváez, his Peronist ally running for governor of the province of Buenos Aires, has recorded separate campaign spots, closed his flush wallet to the radicals and entered talks with Alberto Rodríguez Saá, a so-called dissident Peronist running for Frente Compromiso Federal. Over in the Coalición Cívica (CC), Elisa Carrió’s campaign ‘strategy’ is to appear in public as little as possible. Former President Eduardo Duhalde (2002-2003) lost the public support of Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri (Propuesta Republicana, PRO) and responded by ignoring the results of the 14 August primary in Buenos Aires’s fourth district, replacing Macri’s candidates with his own and sparking a legal challenge from the PRO.

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