Alfredo Olmedo, a far-right Bolsonaro admirer and candidate in #Argentina's presidential election, has dropped out of the race, electing to run for governor of Salta. https://www.perfil.com/noticias/politica/olmedo-bajo-su-candidatura-presidencial-y-va-por-la-gobernacion-de-salta.phtml … 1/
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Olmedo had threatened to siphon conservative votes from President Mauricio Macri in the first round. Already, he succeeded in "moving the direction of the debate to the right,"
@AmerQuarterly reported. https://www.americasquarterly.org/content/curious-case-alfredo-olmedo-argentine-bolsonaro … 2/1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
Indeed, as we wrote in
@AmerQuarterly, President@mauriciomacri has empowered Patricia Bullrich to "satisfy public demands for heavy-handed policing" and "hedge against challenges that could complicate his chances in the first round." https://www.americasquarterly.org/content/what-recession-argentinas-tough-crime-minister-changes-pre-election-debate … 3/pic.twitter.com/v2ui4W0UDE
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Olmedo's absence will permit President Macri to run as the law-and-order candidate, but he still faces a challenger on the right,
@jlespert, critical of the pace of market liberalization. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-future-argentina-conversation-jose-luis-espert … 4/1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
Meanwhile, Salta will not lose its national spotlight. A second salteño, term-limited Governor Juan Manuel Urtubey, remains in
#Argentina's presidential race.@UrtubeyJM 5/pic.twitter.com/viqRWPga7N
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Read more about the election in @LATAMProg's #Argentina newsletter, the #WeeklyAsado, https://engage.wilsoncenter.org/onlineactions/YQcpNdU-sU-dusDkAOYDtw26/ ….pic.twitter.com/ofJScOHk7A
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