Argentina: Fernando De La Rua Wins Argentina's Presidential Elections

Record ID: 4113

  • Title: Argentina: Fernando De La Rua Wins Argentina's Presidential Elections
  • Date: 24th October 1999
  • Summary: Argentina's centre-left Alliance put an end to 10 years of Peronist rule in presidential elections with the victory of the mayor of Buenos Aires, Fernando de la Rua. The president elect has promised moral change after Carlos Menem's free-market zeal. The 62-year-old Buenos Aires mayor, whose sobriety appealed to an electorate tired of outgoing President Menem's "pizza and champagne" style, thrashed hapless Peronist Eduardo Duhalde by winning half the vote, meaning victory in one round. De la Rua immediately pledged to remedy social and moral ills considered the Achilles' heel of Menem's successful reign of enthusiastic economic reforms: a high jobless rate, a widening gap between rich and poor and rife corruption.
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  • Location: ARGENTINA BUENOS AIRES
  • Reuters ID: LDL0012BSOZ77
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