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Weekly Report - 03 August 2017 (WR-17-30)

ARGENTINA: Macri faces threat of Kirchnerista comeback

The government led by President Mauricio Macri trained its artillery on Deputy Julio de Vido but the former federal planning minister, who served throughout 12 years of Kirchnerista governments (2003-2015), emerged unscathed. The Macri administration had sought to coerce and cajole the governors representing the main opposition Partido Justicialista (PJ, Peronists) to exert pressure on the federal deputies representing their provinces to vote on 25 July in favour of a motion to expel De Vido from the lower chamber of congress for moral incapacity because of myriad corruption-related charges hanging over him. De Vido survived. And in a further blow for Macri, no sooner had De Vido’s boss, former president Cristina Fernández (2007-2015), entered the contest for a seat in the federal senate in the province of Buenos Aires in mid-term legislative elections on 22 October than she topped three separate opinion polls. Her victory would complicate Macri’s planned post-election reform agenda.

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