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Weekly Report - 24 September 2015 (WR-15-38)

ARGENTINA: As campaigning begins, Macri starts to falter

Monday 21 September marked the official start of the presidential election campaign. Daniel Scioli, the leading candidate, from the ruling Frente para la Victoria (FPV) faction of the Partido Justicialista (PJ, Peronists), and Sergio Massa, the third-placed contender from the dissident Peronist Frente Renovador (FR) held simultaneous events to outline their bold and optimistic economic policies. While these two began their campaigns with a bang, Mauricio Macri, the second-placed candidate from the centre-right opposition Cambiemos coalition, started his with more of a whimper, as he attended the inauguration of some new subway trains. As corruption allegations mount against some of the Cambiemos candidates, Macri finds himself having to fend off awkward questions which appear to be sapping some of the energy from his campaign.

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