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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 19 October 2018

ARGENTINA: Macri assailed by friend and foe

The government led by President Mauricio Macri came under heavy fire this week on two fronts. Fierce criticism of the recent deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from Sergio Massa, a moderate opposition leader, underscores the government’s difficulties in pushing the 2019 draft budget through congress. But it was not unexpected: Massa is setting his stall out in the hope of contesting next October’s presidential elections. Less predictable, and potentially more damaging, was the verbal typhoon lashing the government from Elisa Carrió, a member of Macri’s ruling centre-right Cambiemos coalition.

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