Argentina elections 2019

serafina · Feb 20th 2019

My husband is growing on José Luis Espert (more info here). He is an economist and is running as an independent candidate. I think that politics is, nowadays, a strongly bipolar system. My husband is explaining me that the first round of election has no consequence on the final results. We will vote twice (or thrice in case of ballot) anyway.

I don't see the point in having to vote twice just to 'test the ground'. Making an election is very expensive, making a fake one is pointless.

Maybe Carlos can explain the reason of two votes.

GlasgowJohn · Feb 20th 2019

Espert is an interesting guy with lots of decent and intelligent policies.

But he will not appeal to the people who get plans or subsidies , so I don't think he has much chance of getting eelcted

Carlos · Feb 21st 2019

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Merci, daniel ! Laissez les bons temps rouler!

Rice: Je crois que la France n'a pas abbandoné l' Amerique. C´est part de votre culture.

Rice · Feb 22nd 2019

Sourtout pendant la semaine du carnaval!

Splinter · Mar 1st 2019

Oh please, Mauri.

Just give us something we can touch, not more rabble rousing bullshit.

serafina · Mar 1st 2019

Macri today announced that children subsidies will rise 46% this month. Why is he playing the populist card? He won’t be able to win over Cristina’s electorate anyway, but he will be surely losing his own.

https://www.facebook.com/202854349739523/posts/2324601894231414?sfns=xmo

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Rice · Mar 2nd 2019

He must have polling numbers that suggest he can pick up a decent chunk of K voters if he does this.

Splinter · Mar 27th 2019

I spotted this poster on the General Paz yesterday on the way back from Eze. I honestly rate El Pistolero's chances as less than zero.

Rice · Mar 27th 2019

Yikes.

Splinter · Mar 27th 2019

The Bocati ham looks like a winner though.

Rice · Mar 27th 2019

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The Bocati ham looks like a winner though.

I’d vote for the Bocati ham instead of the Moreno spam.

Splinter · Mar 28th 2019

Apparently, Lavagna is the dark horse to watch. He is the economy minister from 2001 who brought Argentina back from the abyss, but was later sacked by Nestor Kirchner.

Splinter · Mar 30th 2019

What if Cristina doesn’t run?

Would Maria Eugenia Vidal - current governor of Buenos Aires province - stand for president, with Macri stepping aside?

She's certainly more popular than the president, but would Macri swallow his pride and allow that?

Things surely can't get much worse in Argentina, or can they?

Uhm, yes they can.

Rice · Mar 30th 2019

Most of us can’t put ourselves in the mind of a politician. From our non-political point of view, our thought is “If I were Macri, I’d step aside to help prevent Cristina’s return. Besides, who needs the daily abuse? I want to enjoy life again.”

But they are not like us.

Splinter · Apr 9th 2019

Macri says: "Don't worry, the economy is heading in the right direction. All I'm asking for, is a little faith..."

As if faith pays the bills.

Rice · Apr 9th 2019

To be credible, he needs to show concrete evidence that the economy is headed in the right direction, because what the voters are seeing daily is continuing and increasing inflation. To most people, that is the most personal and concrete sign that things are not improving.

UK Man · Apr 21st 2019

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To be credible, he needs to show concrete evidence that the economy is headed in the right direction, because what the voters are seeing daily is continuing and increasing inflation. To most people, that is the most personal and concrete sign that things are not improving.

I agree.

Pretty sure Macri knew full well inflation was never going to be cracked during his first term without resorting to measures which would make things worse in the long term....aka the K method of doing things.

What has to change here is the attitude of the people. The older generation won't change the only hope lies with the younger generation growing up.

serafina · Apr 21st 2019

I agree with you, Rice. Inflation is the benchmark for wellness for most people here.

Personally, I think he needs to open the borders and lessen the bureaucracy for freelancers (of course, because I have a personal interest into this). Can you believe that working for a customer outside of Argentina is considered exporting a service and you need a separate form of invoicing? Invoicing also needs to be done on AFIP website and once invoices the money must come into the bank in Argentina, and banks charge what they want. Oh, and if you want to keep the money abroad you have to pay a similar amount... but at least you won’t risk having the money converts to pesos overnight.

Compared to the US way of freelancing, this is worse than Italy (same bureaucracy, but at least you can get the money in your bank account with no hassle)

https://medium.com/@j0an/c%C3%…notributista-78d1951d5215

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Splinter · Apr 21st 2019

Not to mention now having to pay 21% VAT (IVA) on digital purchases, like games for example and now that I had to register as self employed (monotributo), I now pay sales taxes if I sell something in a different state.

They're desperate for money.

Splinter · Apr 22nd 2019

Macri's chances of winning are looking dubious to say the least, according to this article from Cronista.

If you want to read it in English, open the article in Chrome and hit translate. It wont let me copy and paste.

https://www.cronista.com/econo…ottage-20190422-0024.html

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