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Santiago Leiras

Political Scientist. Associate Professor at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). PhD in Contemporary Latin America from the Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset (Spain).

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Argentine elections: chronicle of a defeat foretold

The legislative elections in Argentina have left three fundamental facts: the triumph of the opposition at national level, the loss of the majority of the ruling party in the National Senate and the "pyrrhic defeat" of the ruling party in the province of Buenos Aires.

Argentina: of electoral coalitions and government collisions

Will the ruling coalition Frente de Todos be transformed into a front of all against all? Will the opposition alliance Juntos por el Cambio manage to preserve its unity in diversity? It would seem that in Argentina we are in the presence of a presidentialism of collision rather than of coalition.