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Eugene

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Tue Aug 29, 2017, 08:35 PM Aug 2017

Former Argentine President Fernandez barely won Senate primary: radio

Source: Reuters

#WORLD NEWS AUGUST 29, 2017 / 5:44 PM / 2 HOURS AGO

Former Argentine President Fernandez barely won Senate primary: radio

Reuters Staff
3 MIN READ

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Former Argentina President Cristina Fernandez narrowly won an Aug. 13 primary vote for a Senate seat in Buenos Aires province by 0.2 percentage points, National Electoral Director Fernando Alvarez said on local radio on Tuesday.

The electoral authority last updated the count with 95.68 percent of polling stations reporting on Aug. 14, showing President Mauricio Macri’s ally Esteban Bullrich ahead by 0.08 percentage points in a technical tie in the nation’s largest province.

“It’s a very small difference, a minimal difference, a difference without precedent,” Alvarez said on Radio Mitre, explaining only around 20,000 votes separated the two.

Stocks rallied and the peso strengthened after the Aug. 14 count as fears eased that the populist Fernandez could be aiming for a presidential comeback in 2019 and reverse Macri’s economic reforms.

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