New President in Argentina

November 23, 2015

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Via the BBC: Argentina’s President-elect Macri lays out new course

Mr Macri won Sunday’s run-off election by a narrow margin over Daniel Scioli, who was backed by outgoing president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

He said one of the key problems was the lack of accurate information about the state of Argentina’s economy.

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Mr Macri, who won with 51.4% of the vote over Mr Scioli’s 48.6%, called on Argentines to unite behind a common agenda which he said would focus on eradicating poverty and combating drug trafficking.

One response to “New President in Argentina”

Ben Wolf

November 24, 2015 at 5:34 am

If he wants to end poverty his government can expand the Jefes de Hogar program. I expect he’ll instead concentrate on foreign investment/spending and tax cuts/monetarist rigamarole in the hope a magic mixture will fix everything.