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AGUSTÍN ROSSI, TOLOSA PAZ CONFIRM RUNS FOR OFFICE

Victoria Tolosa Paz says she will be a candidate for Buenos Aires Province govenor, joining ticket headed by Daniel Scioli.

Cabinet Chief Agustín Rossi has officially announced he is running for president, vowing to tackle Argentina’s ongoing problems of “inflation, insecurity and uncertainty.”

Veteran Peronist politician Rossi, 63, formally declared his presidential ambitions in a video on social media that acknowledged the adversities facing the ruling Frente de Todos coalition and harked back to the years of former presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

Revealing her electoral ambitions, the government official said she will take on Governor Axel Kicillof in the PASO and challenge his bid for re-election.

Tolosa Paz, 49, will join a Frente de Todos ticket headed by Argentina’s ambassador to Brazil, Daniel Scioli, Peronism’s unsuccessful 2015 presidential candidate who is seeking another run at the Casa Rosada this time out.

“Scioli and I will go to the PASO [primaries], I want to play in Buenos Aires Province. I am going to compete, but it is not clear against whom – the only person who knows is [Vice-president] Cristina [Fernández de] Kirchner, because they [Kirchnerism] have not yet defined who the candidate is,” said the minister.

“We have an objective, we have constituted ourselves as a political force within Frente de Todos where Daniel Scioli and Victoria Tolosa Paz are going to go together to the PASO in the place that we have,” confirmed the national official.

“If we manage to convince and win the hearts of our voters, we can have a very good election,” she told Radio 10.

Despite confirmation of Tolosa Paz’s gubernatorial ambitions, she faces a daunting challenge at the ballot box in the form of Kicillof, the incumbent at government house in La Plata.

Kicillof, a close ally of Fernández de Kirchner, has been tipped for a potential presidential run, representing the Kichnerite wing of the ruling coalition, though he is expected by most analysts to seek re-election.

Launching his campaign, Rossi spoke of the anxieties overwhelming Argentines, identifying three main problems that weigh large on the population: inflation, insecurity and uncertainty. “I want to be president to guarantee that the economic growth of the coming years will be redistributed among all Argentines,” he said.

Rossi has always defined himself as a Kirchnerite and Peronist and he led the Defence Ministry for the first year and a half of the Fernández administration.

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