The headline of this editorial – attributed to Thomas ‘Tip’ O’Neill, the Congress Speaker in Washington, several decades ago – has been widely turned on its head for tomorrow’s midterm elections to replace half the Buenos Aires City Legislature with the implied interpretation that even local government can and should be politicised. But these lines propose to defend the original meaning of this famous quote and not just because endorsement of any of the 17 lists in contention would be flouting the ‘veda’ electoral curfew – tomorrow’s candidates should be judged as monitors of local governance rather than as projections of any national party.
But before advising voters as to the
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