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Brazil & Southern Cone - October 2017 (ISSN 1741-4431)
Macri hoping to exploit electoral success
Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri is exuding confidence in the run-up to the mid-term federal legislative elections due on 22 October. Macri believes that the ruling centre-right Cambiemos coalition will expand its presence in both the lower chamber of the federal congress and the senate, buoyed by the findings of successive opinion polls. The better Cambiemos performs the more his government will be able to seek when it comes to a new economic reform package that it reportedly has filed away waiting until after the elections. But it is not just on the economic front that the government is looking to progress, it is also poised to remove a persistent political thorn in its side: the attorney general, Alejandra Gils Carbó, whose affinity with the opposition Kirchnerismo has led to vexed relations.
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