Argentine's President's party faces election setbacks

In modern Argentine politics, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner continues to 

dominate. After her husband, former President Néstor Kirchner, passed away last year, her approval ratings skyrocketed. However, there is uncertainty about her re-election in the upcoming presidential election, in October. The defeat of her candidates in recent elections, show that Kirchner still has work to do to win in the first round of elections.

2011 Presidential Elections

'Pino' Solanas registers his own alliance, breaks accord with PS and GEN

After a day of intense negotiations, the party led by fillmaker Fernando "Pino" Solanas broke its alliance with presidential candidate Hermes Binner and the leader of the GEN party, Margarita Stolbizer, and decided to go by himself and register his own force (Proyecto Sur party) before the Electoral Justice.

Thus, the Socialists, the GEN, Libres del Sur, Unidad Popular and the party of Luis Juez will be part of national alliance that will compete in the August 14 primary elections, while Solanas will present his own bloc made of Proyecto Sur, Partido Socialista Auténtico (PSA), and Movimiento Socialista de los Trabajadores (MST). The disagreement began after Santa Fe Governor Binner registerd his party along with Stolbizer’s bloc. Plus, Binner did not accept to see the remaining forces placed in the same category as the one of the GEN and the Socialist Party.

According to Noticias Argentinas new agency, both PSA and MST parties wanted to hold same status and privilege than the other alliance membersk, something that Binner refused to concede. This was the straw that broke the camel's back and pushed Solanas, who has had some other minor discrepancies, to break up with Binner and Stolbizer. 

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