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Argentina’s Cristina Fernández forces weakened president into reshuffle
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| Contributor | Bojicat |
| Last Edited | Bojicat Sep 18, 2021 09:31am |
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| Author | Financial Times |
| News Date | Saturday, September 18, 2021 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Argentina’s Peronist president Alberto Fernández reshuffled his cabinet on Friday night in a move which increased the power of radical vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and paved the way for higher public spending.
Tensions within the ruling Peronist bloc burst into the open after the centre-right opposition coalition scored its best result ever in last Sunday’s primary elections, beating the government by a margin of 9 percentage points. Cristina published an open letter blaming Fernández’s economic policies for the “political catastrophe” of the primaries and demanding changes.
The new appointments suggested that Fernández had ceded further ground to his powerful deputy, who herself served as president from 2007-15 and is widely seen as the real power behind the throne.
The Peronists are fighting to avoid defeat at midterm legislative elections in November, in which their senate majority is at risk.
Fernández’s key ally Santiago Cafiero was replaced as cabinet chief on Friday night by Juan Manzur, the governor of Tucumán province, whom the vice-president had publicly suggested for the job in her open letter published the night before.
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