Presidential hopefuls Daniel Scioli (FpV), Mauricio Macri (PRO) and Florencio Randazzo (FpV) take part in a meeting at Pink House in 2008, when their presidential hopes were still under wraps. By Sebastián Lacunza Editor-in-Chief No centre-left options in 2015 as conservatives expect extraordinary performance Even with the unknowns generated by an abuse of marketing and a boost from certain media preferences, Mauricio Macri’s presidential bid is the most solid conservative campaign in the history of Argentine democracy. From what we have seen so far, the Argentine centre-right has only been able to show strength at the ballot box when it has camouflaged itself within Peronism or the Radicals, or when it appealed to the much less elegant electoral fraud a century ago. The flipside of Macri’s success is that the October elections will most likely not feature a progressive ballot in the voting booth — a paradox at the end of a long decade of Kirchnerism, which has be...
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