Will Argentina’s president face a moderate challenger or an unrepentant populist?
FOR MANY Argentines, January and February are idle months. But politicians who hope to unseat the country’s president, Mauricio Macri, in elections this year have been busy. Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of the north-western province of Salta, toured the beach resorts with his wife, an actress, and his baby daughter. “I know I can be president,” he told the sunbathers. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who was president before Mr Macri, made clear that she would like to regain the job.
The politics of Peronism are complicated. Ms Fernández is the movement’s most popular leader by far, with the support of 30% of the electorate. But she is also the least popular, with a rejection rate of more than 60%. In part that is because she and her government are seen as exemplars of corruption. She has been indicted six times. The media have carried reports that she was the intended recipient of bags stuffed with cash so large that their contents were weighed rather than counted.
Peronists of all hues seek to weaken Mr Macri by railing aginst his economic programme, including the IMF deal. The most extremethreaten to tear it up and default on the country’s debt, as the government did in 2001. Moderates talk of renegotiating the IMF deal . They promise to freeze prices of energy and transport and raise pensions, which would increase the budget deficit.
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