Argentina

Peronism Returns

Bibliographic Data

ID6286402
AuthorsMaría Victoria Murillo (0000-0001-6972-4750), J Rodrigo Zarazaga, S J Rodrigo Zarazaga
Year2020
Volume31
Issue2
Pages125-136
Publication date2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of democracy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jod.2020.0026
OpenAlexW3016088745
LanguageEN
Citations received9

In October 2019, Argentina's incumbent president Mauricio Macri was defeated by Alberto Fernández, the candidate of a Peronist coalition. Macri's 2015 victory was hailed at the time as the onset of a right-wing regional wave, but his 2019 defeat shows that the period to follow was in fact one of higher electoral competition and presidential turnover. Macri's weak economic performance and the fact that he confronted a single Peronist ticket, in contrast to the divided field he encountered in 2015, contributed to his defeat. The new administration inherited a dire economic situation to be managed by a coalition with different fiscal priorities and no institutional mechanisms for adjudication

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