Weekly Report - 31 October 2006

The poor north-eastern province of Misiones provided the setting for an election on 29 October which could, for once, resonate on a national level. Governor Carlos Rovira, who has run Misiones like a personal fiefdom, was thwarted in his efforts to secure indefinite election by a disparate opposition coalition led by an octogenarian bishop, Joaquí­n Piña.