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Rebuffing clamour for candidacy, Cristina says she won't run

16-05-2023 20:10 In an open letter published on her website, Argentina's vice-president details her "reasoned and thought-out decision" not to run for office in October elections.

Jorge Macri: ‘I’m not going to tell other candidates what they should do… I’m going to run’

06-05-2023 06:58 Buenos Aires City government minister and mayoral hopeful on meeting the requisites to run, the controversy over concurrent elections and why he wants to lead the nation’s capital.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Fernández de Kirchner blames IMF for peso sell-off, inflation

27-04-2023 23:02 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner criticises the International Monetary Fund for prohibiting Argentina's Central Bank from intervening in financial markets to tame currency volatility in keynote speech.

Clamour for ‘Cristina 2023’ increases ahead of speech

26-04-2023 16:25 Kirchnerites are ready to reignite their calls for Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to declare her presidential candidacy.

by Rosario Ayerdi

How Alberto Fernández resigned himself to not seeking re-election

21-04-2023 14:48 The president has given up his candidacy but not his pen. The video announcing his decision was edited through the night – but Alberto Fernández did not tell Cristina Fernández de Kirchner or Sergio Massa beforehand.

by Rosario Ayerdi

Alberto Fernández declines re-election bid amid inflation spike

21-04-2023 12:00 Argentina's president says he won’t run for re-election, opening the race within the ruling Peronist coalition to pick a candidate ahead of October elections.

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

‘Cristina presidenta’ – Kirchnerites ramp up calls for CFK 2023 run

07-11-2022 20:46 Politicians aligned with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner seek to capitalise on last Friday’s speech in Pilar, as clamour among grassroots activists for vice-president to launch another Casa Rosada candidacy grows.

'Our hero is back': mud shack in Brazil tells drama of Lula's life

28-09-2022 14:24 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the seventh of eight children, was born to a family of illiterate farmers and rose from destitute poverty to become the most popular president in Brazilian history. After a spectacular fall from grace, he may now be on the cusp of a remarkable political comeback.

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

Brazilian presidential hopeful Eduardo Leite announces he is gay

05-07-2021 11:18 "I am a gay governor and I am proud of it, declares Rio Grande do Sul state governor Eduardo Leite, as he denounces intolerable attacks from political rivals.