translated from Spanish: One month away from the election: how do candidates arrive and what changed since THE STEPS?

With the most likely reality that a new government in Argentina will be defined on 27 October, the six candidates who exceeded the threshold of the last primaries begin to outline the closure of a campaign where the debates scheduled for the two Pre-election Sundays appear in bold and capital letters. If the post PASO exchange rate run left us, in Macri’s words, “poorest”, the 4,084,249 votes of difference that Fernandez got on Together for Change seem to have widened further, generating a scenario where the roles of candidate and President by moment seem to be confused. So, within a month of the general election, while things happened, the truth is that the two national election figures, who, among other things, gathered more than 80% of the vote, seem aimed at carrying out campaigns similar to the pre-PASO. Alberto Fernandez
Focused on consolidating trade union support and with the intention of generating a spillover effect towards the city of Buenos Aires and the candidacy of Matías Lammens, the former Chief of Staff continues to travel through different parts of the country, always with the prudential dose of remoteness about the figure of Cristina Kirchner. The bluntness of the triumph of the Front De Todos at the national level allowed Fernández to tour several countries in a few days (Spain, Portugal, Peru and Bolivia) providing some clarifications on the role that his administration would give to foreign policy. 

Those who will be in the way of an eventual Cabinet, the renegotiation of Argentina’s debt, and the need to require consensus in the Congress of the Nation are some of the questions that are about to be resolved for October 27 and probably 10 October December. Mauricio Macri
In line with the pre-STEP campaign, the President seems determined to travel this month touring the country and its “30 cities in 30 days”, deepening the inauguration of works under the idea that his Government “starts and ends” the projects and with the “we listen to the class” as the main flag. 

Further away from Vidal and above all from Rodríguez Larreta, Macri has to himself the challenge of being able to give political continuity to The Change, as well as to be the first non-Peronist President to finish a term since Alvear. Roberto Lavagna 
The impacts that the Federal Consensus space sought to achieve both with the demand to declare the food emergency as well as suspend its campaign did not have the expected blow. However, the far third force of the country, with Roberto Lavagna and Juan Manuel Urtubey at the head concentrate their campaign in the three most populous provinces of the national padrón (Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Santa Fe) in order to expand the number of representatives of this force in the Congress of the Nation. 

The case of the remaining three forces is complex. Both the FIT-Unit, the Front Nos and the Unite for Freedom and Dignity case are hardly able to reach any representative in the legislative branch. The case of Nicolás Del Caño seems more oriented to the “cortá ballot” campaign by Myriam Bregman. From this reading and recognizing a setback in terms of electoral support, it is sought to enable the current port legislator and symbol of the “left” to occupy a seat in the precinct. Emboldened to have passed the instance of the PASO, who received 670,162 votes last August 11, José Luis Gómez Centurión, continues a campaign centered in the north of the country and promoting the defense of the two lives as the main differential and unique known proposal. José Luis Espert, for his part, far from that 8% or 10% that gave him the polls prior to the electoral call, has lost weight and the idea of not voting either past or present, seems to have no future. The truth is that these three fronts are waiting with great expectation until 13 and 20 October, where from the general debates and the sense of “equality” that these events show for a few hours, they will seek to be able to generate some impact from their speeches general election. In this note:

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