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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 20 July 2017

Fernández re-enters the fray

After a long drawn-out saga, Argentina’s former president Cristina Fernández (2007-2015) finally confirmed on 24 June that she will compete in October’s midterm federal congressional elections. At a stroke Fernández’s announcement succeeded, somewhat paradoxically, in improving the electoral prospects of the ruling centre-right Cambiemos coalition, which President Mauricio Macri is keen to see expand its congressional presence so that he can advance his government’s agenda with less resistance and avoid unpredictable opposition sallies against key reform proposals.

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