What Peronism’s White-Knuckle Deal Means for Argentina’s Presidential Race
Economy minister Sergio Massa emerged triumphant, aiding the struggling ruling bloc—but unity is a work in progress.
NEUQUÉN, Argentina—The cierre de listas, or closing of lists, is the most stressful day in Argentine politics, other than election day. It’s the day definitive party tickets have to be handed in to electoral authorities, and negotiations often last deep into the night. But it’s hard to remember a cierre de listas that was as wild a ride as the one last week in the Peronist governing coalition, when the presumptive presidential candidate changed in the last 24 hours—after other parties had already announced their tickets—and, as the Argentine saying has it, “everyone gunning...
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