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Weekly Report - 14 September 2017 (WR-17-36)
ARGENTINA: Courts provide electoral battleground
The political confrontation between President Mauricio Macri’s ruling centre-right coalition Cambiemos and the leftist opposition Kirchnerista groups led by former president Cristina Fernández (2007-2015) is increasingly being played out in the local judiciary. With a little over a month before midterm federal legislative elections on 22 October, a host of different court cases affecting Fernández and her allies are coming to a head. Meanwhile lawsuits against officials in the Cambiemos government, including Macri himself, over alleged irregularities in public office have been filed recently. Progress on these various cases could influence the electoral result by tipping the balance of public opinion towards one side or the other.
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