News of radicals

Fernández confirms he will send Congress bill in 2020 to legalise abortion

01-01-2020 09:59 Issue will be "addressed in 2020," confirms president in radio interview. A bill to legalise the procedure in Argentina failed to clear in the Senate in 2018, after passing the lower house Chamber of Deputies.

PUBLIC HEALTH

Government pulls new protocol for non-punishable abortions amid controversy

21-11-2019 15:21 Macri administration revokes protocol updating guidelines for non-punishable abortions, only a few hours after its publication in the Official Gazette on Wednesday.

RADICAL LEADERSHIP

Cornejo set to stay on as UCR chairman after talks with Morales

07-11-2019 18:01 Outgoing Mendoza governor set to stay on as Radical (UCR) party chairman, after talks with Jujuy's Gerardo Morales. However, Cornejo will not abandon ambitions to be the future opposition leader in Congress.

ELECTION 2019

Cambiemos rebrands as 'Juntos por el cambio' in wake of Macri-Pichetto announcement

12-06-2019 12:55 Following hot on the tails of President Mauricio Macri's announcement that Río Negro Senator Miguel Ángel Pichetto as running-mate in October's election, we now have a name for the ticket: Juntos por el Cambio, or 'Together for the Change.'

AS I SEE IT

Looking for that elusive consensus

01-06-2019 11:35 Some consensuses are good. Others are not. What may be called the Argentine consensus, a mishmash of beliefs, prejudices and priorities that is shared by all Peronists, most Radicals, and many people attracted by smaller movements, is what has prevented the country from making good use of its abundant natural resources and its considerable, but dwindling, human capital.

by James Neilson

2019 ELECTIONS

UCR votes to remain in Cambiemos despite fierce criticism

28-05-2019 10:44 UCR Radical Party members like Martín Lousteau and Ricardo Alfonsín, with long-held differences with the Macri government, have expressed a desire to see the UCR align with the progressive Socialist and GEN parties behind presidential hopeful Roberto Lavagna.