News of juntos por el cambio

Buenos Aires City Mayor Rodríguez Larreta launches presidential run

23-02-2023 14:51 With less than six months to mandatory primary elections, the fight for the candidacies in Argentina’s two main coalitions is heating up.

Cold war between Rodríguez Larreta, Bullrich heats up

16-02-2023 01:33 Two leading PRO party figures – Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Patricia Bullrich – are immersed in an opinion poll battle as they jostle for position ahead of the August PASO primaries. The City Mayor knows that the typical UCR voter is closer to him, but former security minister is making Radical hardliners her focus.

by Ezequiel Spillman

Gerardo Morales: ‘Kirchnerism has to understand that its time is up’

10-02-2023 21:00 Radical party chair and Governor of Jujuy Province on the lithium industry, 2023 candidates, presidential ambitions and why Kirchnerism and Peronism must step aside.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Elisa 'Lilita' Carrió preaches 'unity' as she confirms presidential run

08-02-2023 12:55 Coalición Cívica-ARI leader Elisa Carrió announces presidential run and says she will be a "candidate of unity" for the opposition Juntos por el Cambio coalition.

Soledad Acuña: 'I could be the first woman to govern the City'

17-11-2022 01:49 City Education Minister Soledad Acuña has placed her hat in the mayoral ring of Juntos por el Cambio for next year’s elections.

Opposition infighting over mayoral succession raises stakes in City

17-11-2022 01:47 Jorge Macri is notching up adherents among mayors, seeking political volume with Waldo Wolff, while Soledad Acuña has come out with her intentions to compete. Fernán Quirós waits while the Mayor encourages Emmanuel Ferrario to toss his hat in the ring. Martín Lousteau’s strategy and the internal conflict between Roberto García Moritán and Ricardo López Murphy ⁠— an unfolding tussle.

by Ezequiel Spillman

María Eugenia Vidal: ‘Opposition has to compete in a PASO without hostility’

01-11-2022 12:22 National deputy and former Buenos Aires Province governor on her presidential ambitions, relations with key opposition leaders and why libertarian lawmakers should have helped avoid a tax hike.

by Ezequiel Spillman

The hypocrisy of calling for consensus in an era of polarisation

29-10-2022 06:00 The distance between what politicians say in public and their actions is incredibly large, and it’s not clear whether this is a prerequisite or a consequence of the profession.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Argentina must aim to let the peso float, says Rodríguez Larreta

21-10-2022 14:04 Buenos Aires City Mayor Rodriguez Larreta speaks in an interview; Opposition leader says economic strategy needs political accord first.

Juntos now has more infighting within parties than between allies

21-10-2022 09:06 Radicals and PRO showing more tension between party colleagues than alliance partners. Meetings, whether public or secret, are drawing attention.

by Gabriel Ziblat

Macri sparks controversy as rumours of presidential run ramp up

07-10-2022 00:00 Former president makes waves after describing Argentine society as "the biggest failure of the last 70 years" at event in Spain; Opposition leader says he hopes that "the country which invented populism with Evita and Perón will be the first to remove it."

Elisa Carrió's attacks expose rift among opposition coalition leaders

11-08-2022 10:46 Veteran opposition leader ‘Lilita’ once again sparks controversy, this time with comments slamming several PRO and Radical leaders; PRO leader Patricia Bullrich pushes back, declaring “the impunity of the word has to end."

Esteban Bullrich: ‘When the future is uncertain, all you have is the present’

13-05-2022 12:21 Former senator and education minister Esteban Bullrich on being diagnosed with ALS, faith and why Argentina must overcome the ‘grieta’ rift that dominates the country’s politics.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Are two heads always better than one?

07-05-2022 00:23 Blame lies not only with a self-destructive government whose two wings are more interested in flapping against each other than in taking flight but also with a distinct lack of clear, constructive and convincing alternatives from any other political sector.

Ricardo López Murphy: 'Argentina’s economic regime is very absurd’

15-04-2022 15:10 Lawmaker, economist, former minister and ex-presidential candidate Ricardo López Murphy on Argentina’s struggles with inflation and the future of the opposition Juntos por el Cambio coalition.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

We need to talk about Mauricio – the dilemma facing the opposition

15-04-2022 12:03 Some in Juntos por el Cambio want the former president to step aside, though all the coalition’s key leaders recognise they will need him for the 2023 election. The former president has reached a peace accord with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta but it’s daggers drawn with Gerardo Morales – what is Mauricio Macri’s place in the grand scheme of things?

by Carlos Claá

The future of coalitions and the end of strong presidents

25-02-2022 13:55 Macri will probably turn out to be the last president who tried – and in some measure succeeded – to exercise absolute power. And Alberto Fernández will probably be the first president of a saga where nobody will again exercise power as in the past.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

'Act of good sense' – President praises opposition support for IMF deal

12-02-2022 21:26 President Alberto Fernández praises opposition coalition's support for new IMF financing programme. saying he considered it to be an "act of good sense."

A puzzle nobody wants

24-12-2021 08:35 While it is easy for opposition leaders to criticise the Kirchnerites for their handling of the economy and a great many other things, coming clean about what they themselves would do is far more difficult.

by James Neilson

UCR split: 12 deputies break away to form their own lower house caucus

06-12-2021 23:15 Group of Radical leaders aligned with Senador Martín Lousteau decide to break up UCR's caucus in lower house, forming a new sector that will be headed by Córdoba’s Rodrigo De Loredo once he is sworn-in as a deputy. Breakaway lawmakers will remain within Juntos por el Cambio.