Weekly Report - 15 November 2012 (WR-12-45)

Millions of Argentines want an alternative to the Cristina Fernández administration - or at least to see some serious change in it - as they demonstrated in massive marches across the country late last week. However, as numerous members of the political opposition duly pointed out, the so-called ‘8N Cacerolazo’ (i.e. pots and pans demonstrations) also included a message for the opposition itself, implicitly asking those leaders to put personal interests and conflicts aside and unite to represent their demands. This week the opposition mayor of Buenos Aires City, Mauricio Macri of Propuesta Republicana (PRO), effectively led his first charge in the battle to become the main leader of that opposition movement, announcing he would end the battle with the federal government over the administration of the capital’s underground network and take it under the city’s control from January 2013.

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