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Peronism's existential crisis

Peronism is good at recognising social moods. Today its leaders are carefully analysing the weakening of Kirchnerism, the electoral triumphs of Macri’s Cambiemos and the financial needs of local governments. Español

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Shirts with the effigies of (clockwise sense): Cristina Kirchner, Nestor Kirchner and Evita Peron. Photo courtesy of Nueva Sociedad. All rights reserved.

This article is being published as part of the partnership between Nueva Sociedad and democraciaAbierta. You can read the original here.

That wide, amorphous and fragmented political world which, for lack of a better word, is usually called "Peronism", is today going through a period of great uncertainty. After suffering a heavy defeat in the second round of the 2015 presidential elections, which had seemed easy enough to win, it experienced another setback at the October 2017 mid-term legislative elections.