Incumbent City Mayor, Mauricio Macri, told reporters to be "really surprised" with yesterday’s first round large margin victory as it "broke any previous expectations I had”. Likewise, the business tycoon
• Macri takes 20-point lead on Filmus, both headed to runoff• Mayor Macri thanks BA residents for 'trusting him once more'
Senator Daniel Filmus, the vIctory Front candidate backed by the national government, came up to stage after trailing by 20 points incumbent City Mayor Mauricio Macri on yesterday’s mayoral elections, and told reporters that “We [Kirchnerism] are confident that if we approach voters in the right way, we can change this story.”
• 'We will make it to the second round to defend our principles', Filmus
By Carolina Barros
So where do we go from here — what comes next in the mayoral campaign apparently to be defined in a July 31 run-off? How will the national ruling Victory Front party react?
So where do we go from here — what comes next in the mayoral campaign apparently to be defined in a July 31 run-off? How will the national ruling Victory Front party react?
Cabinet Chief Aníbal Fernández said this morning he wasn’t surprised Buenos Aires City identifies itself with Mauricio Macri. According to him, “porteños could not care less who runs the city.”
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By Sorrel Moseley-WilliamsIt’s been almost two years since I obtained that Holy Grail of Argentine paperwork, possessing my very own bordeaux-coloured booklet with a criminal photo, inky fingerprints and my full name (hyphen omitted) handwritten with black biro which has already reached the illegible stage.
By Michael SoltysThe margin of City Mayor Mauricio Macri’s election victory last night was blunted in the 60-seat Legislature by the fact that his centre-right PRO was defending well over half its seats (14 of the 24), thus making an absolute legislative majority even more of a mission impossible than avoiding a runoff.
The remains of singer Facundo Cabral who was shot dead in Guatemala City last Saturday will be transferred to Argentina tomorrow, diplomatic sources informed.
Mayoral candidate Jorge Telerman said that “it’s too soon to say who will be support” in e upcoming second round between Mayor Mauricio Macri and Senator Daniel Filmus.
• Estenssoro assures CC 'is ready to govern BA City'• Giudici warns of a 'fake polarization' in the elections• López Murphy worried about candidates unwillingness to debate• Telerman 'hopes to be the election's surprise'
The personal website of conservative PRO party lawmaker Cynthia Hotton, who gained extensive notoriety last year after becoming one of the most outspoken opponents to the same-sex marriage law pushed by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, was hacked by gay rights activists today.
The world's leading economies are headed for a slowdown, the OECD said in its latest monthly economic overview, highlighting signs the US economy is reaching a turning point in its growth cycle.
Pakistani called on the United States to share information about new al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri after Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said he believed that Osama bin Laden's successor was in Pakistan.
• US Panetta: al Qaeda's defeat ‘within reach’
Egyptian activists vowed on Sunday to stay camped in Cairo's Tahrir Square, accusing the army rulers of failing to sweep out corruption, end the use of military courts and swiftly try those who killed protesters.
Chancellor Angela Merkel signaled for the first time her intention to seek a third term in 2013, although a poll showed Peer Steinbrueck of the main opposition party gaining more support from voters.
President Barack Obama said that congressional leaders will meet every day until the debt ceiling issue is resolved, adding that there is "a lot of work to do" to tackle the problem.
The News of the World newspaper bought contact details about the royal family from a policeman, the BBC reported today, deepening the scandal engulfing the News Corp media empire.
Wall Street stocks sank as fears about Europe's debt crisis and the global economy sent a shudder through markets and overshadowed the start of the US earnings season.
Merval benchmark stock index lost 1.71 percent, to 3,411.36points. Meanwhile, Argentina's country-risk rose 3.16 percent to 588 basis points in the JP Morgan EMBI index.
French embassy guards in Damascus fired live ammunition to disperse loyalists to President Bashar al-Assad who tried to break into the compound and are still surrounding it, diplomats in the Syrian capital said. A similar crowd broke into the US embassy but later left, they added.
French police today interviewed a French writer who accuses former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape in 2003, her lawyer and judicial sources said.
Domestic and international flights departing from Ezeiza International Airport and Metropolitan Aeroparque Airport are once again affected by the volcanic ash cloud spewed by the Puyehue volcano in Chile. The ash cloud found its way to the city’s skies affecting airline safety thus causing the shutting of the Capital’s airports.
Russia said there was little hope of finding any more people alive today after an overloaded tourist boat sank in the Volga River, killing as many as 128 people in Russia's worst river accident in three decades.
The euro zone must find a rapid solution to the Greek debt problem to slow the spread of falling confidence through the euro zone, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said.
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