The Frente Renovador leader worked hard to sabotage the aspirations of both Interior Minister Eduardo ‘Wado’ De Pedro - CFK’s political protégé - and Daniel Scioli, the former Buenos Aires Province governor who was also Néstro Kirchner’s vice-president and lost the 2015 presidential run-off to Macri. Despite having once been a flaming anti-Kirchnerite who promised to end the corruption perpetrated by La Cámpora - the Kirchnerite political organisation led by Máximo Kirchner - he has ended up becoming Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s leading candidate for president. Massa has a lot of detractors and has been identified as an ambitious opportunist by those who dislike him (it was Macri who previously dubbed him “ ventajita” or “petty advantage.”). The primaries are essentially a first-round vote and will set the stage for a much disputed general election where every player still has chances, much more so given the expectation of a run-off vote in November. For Juntos por el Cambio, the opposition alliance that thought they had the election in the bag, the schism between Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Patricia Bullrich is threatening coalition unity, to the point where the Unión Cívica Radical (UCR) is now entering into bitter disputes with Mauricio Macri’s PRO party, historically a primus inter pares. The libertarian still retains a healthy portion of the voting intention figures, which suggest he will have a say in the election and, in some respect, in the coming administration’s capacity to govern. Ultra-liberal economist Javier Milei, in the eye of the storm for allegedly offering up places on his party’s ticket for cold hard cash, comes as his star begins to wane in the opinion polls. Massa’s antics – both to secure the nomination at the expense of his rivals and in the municipality of Tigre – act as a harbinger of things to come, revealing the level of his ambition and thirst for power. Things are getting serious and the political system is showing its true colours, with all sorts of treachery and mischief coming to the fore. To do so is to be black-balled by the local party – hardly a recipe for recruiting talented people or encouraging good government.īut then, as another philosopher once put it, “Stupid is as stupid does.The final confirmation of Economy Minister Sergio Massa as the leading presidential candidate for the newly-minted pan-Peronist coalition, Unión por la Patria, has opened the door to one of the most decisive moments of the election, as campaigning truly gets going ahead of the PASO primaries. One reason for this could be “Coach” Krvaric’s scorched-Earth policy toward candidates (and consultants apparently), with many running for cover because they cannot be seen to be working with candidates or office-holders from the Democratic Party or even those who decline-to-state (this even though many of the offices in question are officially nonpartisan). The few who won generally won not because of party support, but in spite of it. ![]() ![]() Virtually every candidate of consequence the party supported lost in November. The San Diego Republican Party just witnessed one of the most brutal beat-downs in its history and yet, remarkably, Tony Krvaric was re-elected local party chairman. In an interview in the U-T, he used plenty of football metaphors to explain what has happened, and what needs to be done to turn things around.Ī solution/metaphor that was missing? Fire the coach. Given the divorce rate among heterosexual couples – including many Republicans – in this country, what, exactly, are they trying to protect?įormer state Senator and Assemblyman Jim Brulte was in town last week to pitch his candidacy for chairmanship of the state party. Some Republicans like to make a big deal out of family values and how they are protecting them through their opposition to gay marriage.
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