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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 21 September 2018

ARGENTINA: Macri seeks budget backing amid corruption scandal

Argentina’s federal congress began debating the draft budget for 2019 this week. Given the importance of the vote, and the government’s reliance on the support of the main Partido Justicialista (PJ, Peronists) for its passage through congress, President Maurcio Macri could have done without the decision by Judge Claudio Bonadio accusing his predecessor Cristina Fernández (2007-2015) of leading a huge corruption network. At any other time Macri might have welcomed the development on the grounds that it could sink any chance of a revival in the fortunes of his main rival ahead of presidential elections in just over a year from now. But right now he does not need the PJ being side-tracked.

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