Peronist in a sentence

Argentina is headed for a run-off vote between Economy Minister Sergio Massa and the far-right libertarian Javier Milei after a better-than-expected performance by the ruling Peronist coalition’s candidate in the country’s presidential election.

Argentines headed to the polls on Sunday in primary elections, with voters likely to punish the ruling centre-left Peronist coalition, angry at inflation scraping 116 per cent and a cost-of-living crisis that has left four in 10 people in poverty.

For years, the country has been divided between supporters and opponents of former Peronist president (now VP) Cristina Fernandez Kirchner and her deceased husband (also once president) Nestor Kirchner.

Jorge’s son Marcelo ran as the Peronist candidate for city mayor of Rio Gallegos that year and won, serving until 1987.

Peronist Economy Minister Sergio Massa won around 36.7% of the vote ahead of right-wing outsider Milei with some 30%, far outperforming pre-election polls and setting up a polarized run-off vote on Nov. 19 between the two.

Still, he is likely to encounter fierce opposition from the Peronist movement’s lawmakers and the unions it controls, whose members have said they refuse to lose wages.

Three frontrunner candidates are likely to split the vote: Libertarian economist Javier Milei, centrist Peronist economy minister Sergio Massa and conservative Patricia Bullrich.

But as Milei and his allies tell it, Quintela’s alternative offers little more than a return to Argentina’s habitual Peronist preserve of reckless spending — — that delivered the unmitigated crisis that his government inherited.

He will remember for having been the first non-Peronist government that finished a mandate since the return of democracy in 1983.

A year ago, 17 October 2018, the Peronist groups divided and squabbling were involved in at least three different Loyalty Day celebrations.

The advisors from the Peronist Party, a main faction of Fernandez's Frente de Todos coalition, published a report late Wednesday with their recommendations for the candidate if he is to win the October 27 general election, which is widely expected.

The province of Tierra del Fuego is currently ruled by governor Rosana Bertone of the Peronist party and will be succeeded in December by Gustavo Melella from the Union Civica Radical.

It smacks of Latin American caudillo populism, a Peronist contagion that threatens to destroy the moral foundations of the Great Republic.

After Borges' death in 1986, the Peronist Partido Justicialista declined to send a delegate to the writer's memorial service in Buenos Aires.

Cavallo brought a number of independent economists to the cabinet, and Menem supported him by replacing Peronist politicians.

Fraser and Navarro write that the wide support Evita's proposed candidacy generated indicated to him that Evita had become as important to members of the Peronist party as Juan Perón himself was.

In the post-Peronist Argentina of the early 1960s, Contorno met with wide approval from the youth who challenged the authenticity of older writers such as Borges and questioned their legacy of experimentation.

Juan Perón "eagerly and enthusiastically" attempted to recruit the Jewish community into his government and set up a branch of the Peronist party for Jewish members, known as the Organización Israelita Argentina (OIA).

Some reporters viewed the mourning as authentic, others saw a public succumbing to another of the "passion plays" of the Peronist regime.

Time magazine reported that the Peronist government enforced the observance of a daily period of five minutes of mourning following a daily radio announcement.