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First day of the rest of the year

Yesterday 06:00 Economists have hailed the exit from the cepo as a milestone but this columnist hesitates to consider it an electoral game-changer – there is both too much and too little time for that.

by Michael Soltys

POLITICS: MIDTERMS 2025

Who’s who: The candidates heading lists for Buenos Aires City midterms

30-03-2025 10:01 Main candidates are already defined for the Buenos Aires City midterms in May – Silvia Lospennato, Leandro Santoro, Manuel Adorni, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Ramiro Marra are the names that head the highest-polling options.

POLITICS: MIDTERMS 2025

City elections: Candidate Adorni, Marra to run, Lospennato emerges

28-03-2025 13:52 Focus on the countdown to candidate list registrations for the upcoming May 18 elections for the Buenos Aires City legislature.

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

Untidily Crumbling Radicals

28-09-2024 06:05 The Unión Cívica Radical crisis perhaps stems from standing or falling from being the men in the middle in many senses – representing a middle class facing extinction and a middle ground squeezed out by polarisation.

by Michael Soltys

Congress & Politics

Milei clashes with Senate over pensions, vows to veto increase

23-08-2024 14:27 President Javier Milei announced Friday he will veto pension increases approved by the Senate the previous day, branding those who voted for the boost "fiscal degenerates."

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Elisa Carrió: ‘Friends say to me please don’t speak out – no, I won’t be complicit’

11-05-2024 06:48 Veteran politician and founder of the Coalición Cívica-ARI on President Javier Milei, why the middle class must react to austerity and why she wants a comeback in Congress.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Martín Lousteau: ‘I’m not afraid of leaders with an authoritarian streak’

06-04-2024 06:09 Senator and UCR chair on why the mega DNU emergency decree was unconstitutional, President Milei’s economic plan and Radical renewal.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

POLITICS

The Acassuso Pact: How Macri and Milei sealed their deal

06-11-2023 15:21 Inside the meetings in the living room of the former president's home in San Isidro secured the agreement that fractured the opposition Juntos por el Cambio coalition. Causes and consequences of a crisis foretold.

by Rodis Recalt

INTERVIEW

Cristian Ritondo: ‘In the run-off, Milei represents change – being neutral is not an option’

06-11-2023 12:14 National lawmaker and head of the PRO lower house caucus says that Javier Milei is the only option that represents change in the November 19 run-off and calls on Argentina to rebuff Sergio Massa, a “part and central protagonist of this government.”

by Ezequiel Spillman

ELECTION 2023

Opposition politicians who are backing Massa in the run-off

01-11-2023 15:55 With great differences within Juntos por el Cambio and in particular the Unión Cívica Radical, Javier Milei is proving to be the dividing line for some.

ELECTIONS 2023

UCR charges against Milei on 40th anniversary of Alfonsín election win

30-10-2023 22:07 "Any Radical who votes for Milei is betraying Alfonsín's legacy," declares UCR chair and outgoing Jujuy Province Governor Gerardo Morales.

ELECTION 2023: FALL-OUT

Macri says his 11-year-old daughter told him to support Milei

27-10-2023 11:07 Former president speaks publicly for first time about the split in the opposition Juntos por el Cambio coalition over decision to back Javier Milei in next month's run-off.

ELECTION 2023: FALL-OUT

Intimate diary of a day of rage: how PRO was blown apart

26-10-2023 16:24 The secrets of the fierce internal debate inside Patricia Bullrich’s apartment, position of the opposition governors and the fear from mayors. The arguments against and in favour of backing Milei from the 24 hours in which Juntos por el Cambio began to fracture.

by Ezequiel Spillman

ELECTION 2023

‘The two options are bad’ – Rodríguez Larreta refuses to back Milei or Massa

25-10-2023 19:53 Horacio Rodríguez Larreta declares both Massa and Milei would be bad for the country and refuses to endorse either candidate; Buenos Aires City mayor says he will fight to expand opposition coalition.

by James Grainger

Election 2023

Reports: Patricia Bullrich set to back Javier Milei in presidential run-off

25-10-2023 11:37 Multiple outlets report that opposition leader Patricia Bullrich will support libertarian presidential candidate Javier Milei in the November 19 run-off.

by James Grainger

ELECTIONS 2023

Cornejo romps past De Marchi to comeback as Mendoza governor

25-09-2023 16:59 Unión Cívica Radical leader’s Cambia Mendoza front finishes 10 points ahead of Milei-flirting Unión Mendocina, with Peronism a distant third on 15 percent.

ELECTIONS 2023

Juntos por el Cambio dethrones Jorge Capitanich in Chaco

18-09-2023 14:34 Sixteen years of Kirchnerite rule in Chaco comes to an end; Leandro Zdero elected new governor, scoring 46.13% in first round victory; Provincial strongman Jorge Capitanich ejected from office, months after presumed murder of Cecilia Strzyzowski.

ELECTION 2023

Bullrich appeals to the epic, vowing to end Kirchnerismo

28-08-2023 15:14 Patricia Bullrich believes she has unified the opposition coalition behind her and is convinced of the message she needs to express: only Juntos por el Cambio can end Kirchnerism once and for all.

by Ezequiel Spillman

CAMPAIGN COMMENTS

The elections according to Saint John

08-07-2023 06:59 San Juan is not an especially attractive city for tourists but it does have an uncanny knack for being a venue for key turning-points in Argentine political history.

by Michael Soltys

ELECTIONS 2023 – ANALYSIS

Radical running-mates add value to PRO presidential tickets

06-07-2023 00:19 Radical party chairman Gerardo Morales and the Mendoza politician Luis Petri will accompany Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Patricia Bullrich on their presidential tickets. Tussles, negotiations and their role in the structure.

by Rodis Recalt

EDITORIAL

The shape of things to come?

24-06-2023 01:16 Despite their deep divisions, as exposed by their problems in defining candidacies by today’s deadline, both major coalitions have unanimously toed a line representing half the truth at best.

UNREST IN JUJUY

Fernández, Morales continue to fuel flames of unrest in Jujuy

23-06-2023 01:14 President Alberto Fernández slams brutal repression in northern province but fails to condemn violence; Peronist leader says he will push to have constitutional reform struck down as “unconstitutional.”

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Alfredo Cornejo: ‘People vote far more freely in the PASOs’

23-06-2023 01:11 Senator Alfredo Cornejo, candidate for Mendoza Province governor and a leading figure in the Unión Cívica Radical, on the provincial elections so far and his party's relationship with PRO.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

ELECTIONS 2023

Opposition Juntos por el Cambio coalition at odds over Schiaretti

05-06-2023 17:17 Tensions soar in opposition coalition over potential incorporation of Cordóba Province Governor Juan Schiaretti; Patricia Bullrich against push from Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Gerardo Morales to approve veteran Peronist’s introduction.

ELECTIONS 2023

Jorge Macri chosen as PRO mayoral candidate in City

30-05-2023 17:45 Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta confirmed that Jorge Macri will be PRO's solo candidate in Buenos Aires City; Ex-Vicente López leader outperforms Fernán Quirós in polling.