Vaccine rollout and economic recovery will influence Argentina polls
03 May 2021 - 16:23
Buenos Aires — It is not a great year to go to the polls. Argentina’s governing Peronists face crunch midterm elections in October, and pollsters say how they handle a still-raging pandemic and its fallout will be important to limiting the electoral damage.
Speeding up a stalled vaccine campaign, hit by allegations of nepotism that led a health minister to resign, could be decisive as the centre-left Frente de Todos coalition defends a majority in the senate and its strong position in the lower house, where it is the largest bloc...
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