AT LONG LAST: MIDTERMS

The midterm elections to choose 127 deputies nationwide and 24 senators (three each in this city, Chaco, Entre Ríos, Neuquén, Río Negro, Salta, Santiago del Estero and Tierra del Fuego) will be held tomorrow with 35,394,425 citizens qualified to vote. President Javier Milei held closing rallies in Córdoba on Tuesday and Rosario on Thursday while cancelling his agenda in Buenos Aires Province but the veda electoral curfew in force today stands in the way of giving further details on the final week of campaigning by either the ruling or opposition parties.

RESHUFFLE BEGINS EARLY, MINISTERS QUIT

Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein resigned Monday with Finance Secretary Pablo Quirno announced as his successor on Thursday. Werthein’s exit had been widely rumoured ever since President Javier Milei’s awkward White House meeting with his United States counterpart Donald Trump on October 14, when Washington’s financial assistance came across as contingent on electoral success. Werthein was also reportedly uncomfortable with the imminent entry of star spin doctor Santiago Caputo into the Cabinet. The minister fell just one week short of a year in office after replacing Diana Mondino last October. Quirno is extremely close to his boss until now, Economy Minister Luis Caputo, serving as his Cabinet Chief when Caputo was Finance Minister in the Mau