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‘Extraordinary Solidarity Contribution’ – details of the ‘wealth tax’ bill

21-11-2020 10:27 Lawmakers in Argentina’s lower house on Wednesday approved a bill that will see the nation’s wealthy citizens slapped with a one-off capital levy on assets.

CONGRESS & POLITICS

Frente de Todos advances Congress agenda with marathon session

20-11-2020 11:01 Favourable outcomes for ruling coalition in Congress. After more than 20 hours of debate in lower house, deputies back ‘wealth tax’ bill and initiative to stop commercial redevelopment of fire-destroyed land.

Coronavirus pandemic

Guzmán, Pesce, Massa in isolation after IMF officials gets Covid-19

15-11-2020 20:55 A number of government officials – including Martín Guzmán, Miguel Pesce and Sergio Massa – went into preventative isolation on Sunday, after a member of a visiting IMF mission tested positive for Covid-19.

ABORTION BILL

Fernández set to relaunch delayed bid to legalise abortion

28-10-2020 22:40 President Alberto Fernández is preparing his government to send a bill to allow the voluntary interruption of pregnancy to Argentina’s lower house before the end of the year. Inside Congress, however, the countdown has already begun.

CRISTINA & ALBERTO

Is she winning?

27-06-2020 08:23 The major shock to the president’s credibility, though, was the failed expropriation of agro-giant Vicentín. Not only are a lot more people against the measure, but also the sensation that it’s of Cristina’s making, not Alberto’s.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Love in the time of coronavirus

Two places in north put in lockdown after reckless love affair

18-03-2020 15:42 The town of Selva and the city of Ceres have been in isolation for nearly a week now, as a result of a love affair gone wrong as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

AMID CONTROVERSY...

Bill to trim pension privileges of judges, diplomats clears lower house

28-02-2020 13:00 Opposition walks out in anger as Fernández administration’s reform targeting judges and diplomats is pushed through Chamber of Deputies – with a little help from Daniel Scioli…

Peculiar payments

Massa raises questions over AySA-Boca contract

17-01-2020 17:24 State-owned waterworks company paid football club around two million pesos a year for perks, contract shows.

Emergency Bill

Debate over government's omnibus 'emergency' bill rages on

18-12-2019 20:39 Lawmakers are set to vote on the massive piece of legislation on Thursday that would formalise the "triple" emergency and set in motion a series of economic reforms to address the crisis

#SISEPUEDE TOUR

Macri asks for 'more time' in Salta after primary boost

10-10-2019 20:12 The Juntos por el Cambio leader, seeking re-election, asks voters to back him at the polls on October 27, telling them Argentina’s problems could be solved with “more time.”

BLOOMBERG

YPF should return to focusing on oil, says Sergio Massa

07-10-2019 14:36 State-controlled energy company YPF SA should go back to its core business of pumping oil and stop investing in other projects like scooters, according to Sergio Massa.

ELECTION 2019

It ain’t over ’til it’s over

05-10-2019 09:56 Sergio Massa, a prominent member of the Peronist front, quipped that the president has embarked on a “farewell tour.”

by Martín Gambarotta

SERGIO MASSA INTERVIEW

Massa: 'I’ve learnt that the collective comes before the personal'

27-09-2019 22:57 Sergio Massa, the Tigre Peronist who forms a key part of the Frente de Todos coalition, discusses Alberto Fernández, the Mauricio Macri administration, renewing ties with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and what lies ahead for Argentina.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Jorge Cortés

Political leaders and officials mourn death of Hipólito Yrigoyen mayor

22-08-2019 12:18 Hipólito Yrigoyen mayor Jorge Cortés died in a car accident Wednesday after a meeting of PJ officials with Axel Kicillof.

ELECTION 2019

CFK, Massa reunite at rally for first joint appearance since 2009 split

05-08-2019 10:28 Sergio Massa, who briefly served as Cabinet chief in Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's government, broke from the then-president in 2009 before successfully campaigning against her coalition in the 2013 mid-term elections.

2019 Elections

Camaño to face former ally Massa as BA province candidate

23-06-2019 16:57 Graciela Camaño will lead Roberto Lavagna's coalition on the ballot for Buenos Aires province, while former Bolivar mayor Eduardo Bucca is set to challenge María Eugenia Vidal for the governorship.

2019 Elections

Peronists set to dominate divided Congress

23-06-2019 16:53 While all eyes are on the presidential elections in Argentina, the race for the country's Congress is key to understanding what policy scenarios the next government will face.

by Gabriel Ziblat

2019 Elections

Parties lodge final candidacies after lengthy, heated negotiations

23-06-2019 16:52 Months of negotiations end with high-profile candidates securing their spot on ballots in the race for the national Congress.

EDITORIAL

The wood and the trees

22-06-2019 10:46 Although in theory anything could change in the next few hours, the big picture seems firmly defined with most candidates running behind the new polarisation resulting from two surprise moves from Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Mauricio Macri.

ELECTION 2019

Macri pickup places Cristian lead within margin of error

22-06-2019 10:33 Race tightens as real campaign starts with definition of candidacies.

ELECTIONS 2019: CAMPAIGN WATCH

Electoral slates in, time to go to the shrink

22-06-2019 10:29 More broadly, the political establishment would also need to explain why the country has to vote in a primary in August in which none of the presidential candidacies competing in.

by Marcelo J. Garcia

2019 Elections

Sergio Massa to lead Fernández-Fernández list for Lower House

18-06-2019 13:45 Sergio Massa's decision to join Frente de Todos comes amid a wave of Peronist wins in provincial elections.

ELECTORAL RACE

Battle-lines drawn with last-minute veeps

15-06-2019 07:43 Pichetto, Urutbey picked to accompany Macri and Lavagna, Massa formalises deal with Kirchnerism.

Election 2019

Pichetto: 'There will be a lot of Peronism behind the president'

14-06-2019 18:20 Peronist leaders met for lunch Friday in Buenos Aires. Yesterday Pichetto participated in a cabinet meeting.

Peronist unity?

Massa's successor in Tigre decries local gov't coup

13-06-2019 15:12 Mayor of Tigre Julio Zamora complains Massa and Renewal Front are blocking primaries race that would allow him to retain his control of wealthy district in Greater Buenos Aires.

by Anabella Gonzalez

Election 2019

Urtubey to contest presidency as his former allies abandon Alternativa Federal

12-06-2019 10:12 The departure of Miguel Angel Pichetto and Sergio Massa from the Alternativa Federal ('Federal Alternative') front leaves Salta Governor Juan Manuel Urtubey contesting the presidency solo.

AS I SEE IT

Fun time for politicians

08-06-2019 10:51 Politicians like electioneering so much that they have put in place a series of obstacles candidates must jump over before reaching the finishing straight.

by James Neilson

PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL

Alberto Fernández leaves hospital after three days of tests

06-06-2019 17:52 "I'm very well, I'm going home to work," says presidential hopeful, who is standing for election on a Kirchnerite ticket.

2019 Elections

Reports: Lavagna, Urtubey working to salvage 'third option'

04-06-2019 10:44 Alternativa Federal member, Governor of Salta Juan Manuel Urtubey, and presidential hopeful Roberto Lavagna are reportedly in talks to salvage the so-called "third option" campaign.

Provincial elections

Peronists score big in San Juan, Misiones elections

03-06-2019 12:41 Incumbent Governor of San Juan Sergio Uñac calls for primaries race between Alberto Fernández, Sergio Massa and Roberto Lavagna.

2019 Elections

Lavagna team meets to reaffirm 'third option' message

02-06-2019 08:46 Economist Roberto Lavagna continues touring the country as a presidential hopeful despite growing signs of Peronist unity which would hurt his chances in a polarised race.

by Rosario Ayerdi

MASSA’S TURN

Speculation

01-06-2019 09:50 Macri has also become a listener, calling for a pact to take the nation forward while inviting his allies to question his authority. He appears willing to even consider a vice-president from the Radical Civic Union (UCR).

by Agustino Fontevecchia

ELECTIONS 2019: CAMPAIGN WATCH

Never underestimate a ruling party

01-06-2019 09:02 This principle applies especially to this ruling party too, which has not been capable of sorting out the country’s severe and chronic economic problems but has proved to be a committed group of professionals whose electoral marketing is well above the local political median.

by Marcelo J. Garcia

ELECTORAL RACE

Massa, torn between Kirchnerites and Peronists, takes centre stage

01-06-2019 08:49 Renewal Front Sergio Massa held his convention on Thursday, calling for a new “opposition majority” to oust Macri, as he negotiates with Alberto Fernandez and Alternativa Federal.

EDITORIAL

Bottom lines and battlegrounds

25-05-2019 11:26 Beyond Kirchnerism, the Peronist panorama is confused between Roberto Lavagna, Sergio Massa and various others with its strongest candidate, recently re-elected Córdoba Governor Juan Schiaretti, not even in the running. Even the Fernández-Fernández ticket is not engraved in stone.

‘FERNÁNDEZ-FERNÁNDEZ’ TICKET

Two less polarised poles

25-05-2019 10:29 Until last Saturday, Argentina’s polarisation was a force of pressure: as if one were inside a scrap cruncher.

by By ANDRÉS MALAMUD

DISSIDENT PERONISTS

Lavagna's absence at Alternativa Federal summit raises eyebrows

22-05-2019 18:43 At dissidents' summit, Schiaretti, Massa and Urtubey urge clarity over primaries race. TV star Marcelo Tinelli and former BA governor Daniel Scioli invited to join ranks.

by Diamela Rodríguez

ELECTION 2019

Roberto Lavagna makes up his mind: 'I am a candidate for president'

20-05-2019 17:07 With the deadline for candidates to register for the PASO primaries fast approaching, the line-up is becoming more defined by the day: Roberto Lavagna has now confirmed that he will run for the presidency.