Former president Cristina Fernández (2007-2015) has taken the plunge and confirmed what has been speculated upon for months: she will seek a seat in the federal senate in October’s mid-term elections. Fernández will top the senate list of her newly launched political party Frente Unidad Ciudadana (FUC) in the province of Buenos Aires. Finally, Fernández and President Mauricio Macri, the most influential Argentine politicians of recent years, will to all intents and purposes face each other electorally for the first time: Macri will orchestrate the campaign of the ruling centre-right Cambiemos coalition against Fernández. He will be buoyed by her decision as it splits the opposition Partido Justicialista (PJ, Peronists) vote in Argentina’s most populous province.
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