News of ruling coalition

Frente de Todos senators eye bill to tax undeclared assets held overseas

28-03-2022 22:02 Ruling coalition senators propose new bill that would tax the undeclared assets of citizens held overseas and use them to pay off IMF debt.

EDITORIAL

Remembering back to the future

25-03-2022 20:55 All the political jockeying, shows of force and crisis scenarios should not distract us from what Memory Day is all about.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Sergio Massa: ‘I stopped basing my politics on articles or opinion polls a long time ago’

25-03-2022 12:00 Lower House speaker on tensions in the ruling coalition, the approval of the IMF debt deal and whether he’ll run for the Presidency in 2023.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS

Máximo Kirchner quits Argentina Congress role in IMF protest

01-02-2022 14:21 Argentina’s tentative IMF agreement suffers a setback as Máximo Kirchner, the ruling coalition’s leader in the lower house, resigns in protest over the deal.

FRENTE DE TODOS

Máximo Kirchner resigns lower house post over IMF deal

31-01-2022 21:49 Leader of the ruling coalition’s bloc in the Chamber of Deputies steps down in protest over government's new deal with IMF. President admits in a TV interview that Cristina Fernández de Kirchner "has a different view" to him.

BLOOMBERG

Lower house unexpectedly rejects 2022 Budget bill

17-12-2021 14:55 Lower house of Congress unexpectedly rejects government’s 2022 budget proposal, a blow to President Alberto Fernández as he enters the second half of his presidency.

ALBERTO´S FIRST YEAR

Covid, crisis, coalition tensions: Alberto Fernández's first year in office

12-12-2020 09:45 One year on from his inauguration, the president is pinning his hopes on a mass Covid-19 vaccination campaign to kickstart Argentina’s economic recovery. Infighting in his Frente de Todos coalition is increasingly visible, but nobody wants to create a new rift which would end up favouring the opposition.

by Rosario Ayerdi

POLITICS & THE PANDEMIC

Coalitions or collisions?

10-10-2020 09:27 It’s too early to tell if this stress will snowball into a breakdown leading to, say, a sweeping Cabinet reshuffle sponsored by the Kirchnerites, forcing out members of the president's inner circle.

by Martín Gambarotta

POLITICS & THE PANDEMIC

Fernández TV

20-06-2020 09:02 Time will tell if the delays with the Vicentin and wealth tax bills are a deliberate strategy by the president to buffer the complaints by the lobbies who have historically clashed with Kirchnerismo.

by Martín Gambarotta