(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Adults in Argentina are not particularly thrilled by any potential presidential candidate at this moment, according to a poll by Giacobe y Asociados. 15 per cent of respondents would prefer either Argentinean vice-president Julio Cobos of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) or Elisa Carrió of the Civic Coalition (CC) in the 2011 election.

Former president Néstor Kirchner, former president Eduardo Duhalde, and former economy minister Roberto Lavagna are behind with three per cent, followed by Carlos Reutemann of the Justicialist Party (PJ) and left-wing former presidential candidate Fernando Pino Solanas with two per cent each.

In October 2007, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner won the presidential election with 44.9 per cent of the vote as the candidate for the Front for Victory (FV). In December, Mrs. Kirchner succeeded her husband, Néstor Kirchner, as Argentina’s head of state. The outgoing president was praised for fostering an economic recovery after a major crisis in 2002. Fernández de Kirchner has vowed to address poverty and carry on with her husband’s fiscal policies.

On Jul. 29, Lavagna—regarded as the architect of Argentina’s economic recovery during Mr. Kirchner’s administration—criticized a proposed bill that would allow the government to enact budgets without previous legislative approval. Lavagna urged lawmakers to defeat the bill and figure out a plan to stem hiking inflation, stating, "The best way to help reorient the government is for an immediate action plan from Congress. Many [economic policy] mistakes were made in the past two and a half years."

Polling Data

Who would you prefer as a presidential candidate in 2008? (Open-ended)

Source: Giacobe y Asociados
Methodology: Interviews with 1,094 Argentinean adults, conducted from Jul. 22 to Jul. 25, 2008. Margin of error is 4 per cent.

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