It was the very definition of a Pyrrhic victory. Argentina's opposition Peronismo Federal (PF) clung on to the governorship of the southern province of Chubut in elections on 20 March. But, so narrow was the margin of victory over the candidate running for the Frente para la Victoria (FPV) of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner that it has probably scuppered the chances of Mario Das Neves, the PF powerbroker in the province, of standing for the PF in October's presidential elections. Instead, the virtual draw against one of the most prominent representatives of anti-Kirchnerista Peronism, following fast on the heels of the defeat of the other main opposition party Unión Cívica Radical (UCR) in its provincial bastion of Catamarca a week earlier, will have strengthened Fernández for the battles ahead and left the opposition licking its wounds.
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