Argentina legislative elections

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Anyone has word on that?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Not much. I've found a BBC article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4366122.stm) but that's about it.
Very odd.

[YoMartin]

Not much to say, interesting elections. Kirchner will be strengthen by the outcome, yet he could lose 3 of the 5 biggest districts.

Anything in particular you´d like to know?

[minionofmidas]

Wow.
Talk about a serious Blast from the Past.
Yo, Martin, how you doing? You still lurking regularly around these forums? Now all I need is a return visit from Dunn to make my day.

And to answer your question, one piece I read over here said there probably wouldn't be much movement within parties but all the interesting action would be within the Peronists. Is that right? How well defined are these Peronist factions exactly?

[YoMartin]

I checked some threads on the german election, but before that... no, I think I wasn´t here in months.

You´re right, the main action is going on within peronism. In the province of Buenos Aires, which is the main district (35% of the national vote), current president Kirchner and former president Duhalde (both peronists) are supported by different candidates. Opposition to peronism is still very divided after De la Rua´s disastrous government and no national party has been able to unify the different provincial leaders. Kirchner´s candidates will get most of the votes, be they could come 2nd in Santa Fe and Mendoza provinces (3rd and 5th by number of voters) and even 3rd in Buenos Aires City (2nd). Nobody believes to the polls anymore (like pretty much everywhere), and there a few tight races, so tomorrow will be an interesting day.

About differences between the different peronist factions, there´s not much ideology there but personal conflicts. That being said, Kirchner peronists seem to be more middle class and center-left than Duhalde´s, who are more lower class and populists. Apparently, Kirchner is trying to end the old peronism/anti-peronism division of Argentina politics to build a more "european" party system (center-left vs center-right), but, as I see it, there are no chances of that happening anywhere soon.

[WMS]

Good to see you return, YoMartin. And thanks for the report on Argentina...

[YoMartin]

Hey.

My predictions were basically right, Kirchner won in a lanslide in Buenos Aires province (46% to 19% over Duhalde) and lost in the places I said he would probably loose (coming third in Buenos Aires City).

Peronism as we knew for the last 60 years maybe be dying. Interesting thing to watch.

[WMS]

Hey.

My predictions were basically right, Kirchner won in a lanslide in Buenos Aires province (46% to 19% over Duhalde) and lost in the places I said he would probably loose (coming third in Buenos Aires City).

Peronism as we knew for the last 60 years maybe be dying. Interesting thing to watch.

Keep us informed...