No innovations of consequence in the past week – markets are exuberantly calm with country risk in full retreat while the centralisation of power is being consolidated, contrary to advice to broaden the political base both from home and abroad, with much attention falling on the potentially endless ‘Cuadernos’ (“notebooks”) corruption trial. So every reason for this column to continue with the detailed analysis of last month’s midterms – after tidying up the country’s largest constituency last Saturday, today’s focus is on this city, which elected senators as well as deputies, and on the Senate as a whole.
While the government’s overall midterm triumph represented a huge shift from gloomy pre-electoral expectations, this city’s results did not show that much change from last May’s local voting. In broad terms, Alianza La Libertad Avanza obtained approximately the sum total of the votes won by the brand-new Cabinet Chief Manuel Adorni and PRO’s Silvia Lospennato last May (with the high profile of outgoing National Security Minister Patricia Bullrich securing an extra three percent at senatorial level to notch an absolute majority) while incumbent Senator
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