A collection of ‘News Articles’ from The Financial Times :
Headline: Cristina Fernández to lead new alliance in Argentina elections
Sub-headline: Fiery populist’s comeback threatens to split opposition vote in legislative mid-terms
https://www.ft.com/content/3024e494-58ff-11e7-b553-e2df1b0c3220
Headline: Fernández eyes influential role in midterm Argentine elections
Sub-headline: Former president will have decisive impact on vote that may have economic implications
https://www.ft.com/content/b2404d44-503d-11e7-bfb8-997009366969
Headline: Argentina’s Mauricio Macri weathers storm as Peronists in disarray
Sub-headline: Floundering opposition struggles to challenge reform
https://www.ft.com/content/f580ec18-ea43-11e6-893c-082c54a7f539
Headline: Cristina Fernández charged in Argentina corruption case
Sub-headline: Former president suffers her biggest legal setback after public works accusations
https://www.ft.com/content/78c0dfa6-cc86-11e6-b8ce-b9c03770f8b
The lack of a legislative majority and the return of ‘fiery populist’ Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is causing political distress for Prat-Gay’s successor Nicolás Dujovne: he declares, as reported by Benedict Mander:
Mr Dujovne is confident that Ms Fernández will not return to the presidency.
“The principal tail risk is the return of populism, but that’s not going to happen,” he says. “Argentine society does not want to return to its past of authoritarianism, lies and corruption.”
Mr Dujovne‘s credentials are impressive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Dujovne
But nothing is more impressive than Mr. Prat-Gay’s CV, yet there is this:
Prat-Gay was appointed minister of financed in 2015, by president Mauricio Macri. In that capacity, he successfully ended the currency controls established by Cristina Kirchner and the sovereign default declared in 2001. He also helped to restore international relations, and the update of the figures of the wealth tax, which had not been updated in previous years in line with inflation. He had conflicting views of the economy with Federico Sturzenegger, president of the Central Bank of Argentina. By demand of president Macri, he resigned on December 26, 2016,[15] and was succeeded by Nicolás Dujovne.[16]
The Argentine Political Melodrama, as it unfolds in the august pages of The Financial Times is, in sum, about the Neo-Liberalization of an economic rogue state. That melodrama’s central conflict is between the Macri/Dujovne Righteous Reformers vs the utterly corrupt Fiery Populist Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. This has all the subtlety of a prime time television soap opera.
Old Socialist
https://www.ft.com/content/eb97b124-5752-11e7-9fed-c19e2700005f
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