Daniel Scioli

Her handpicked successor, Daniel Scioli, the former governor of Buenos Aires province, was thought to be something of a shoo-in, but he only narrowly won the first round of voting in October and failed to gain the 45 percent of the vote necessary to prevent a runoff election.…

…Fernández de Kirchner’s handpicked successor, Daniel Scioli, the governor of Buenos Aires province, and centre-right candidate Mauricio Macri, the mayor of the city of Buenos Aires. (Fernández de Kirchner was constitutionally prohibited from running for a third term.) Scioli, who had been heavily favoured to win, took about 37 percent…

His main opponent was Daniel Scioli, the Peronist candidate who was endorsed by outgoing president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and was widely seen as the favourite. In a surprise, Macri forced a runoff election, in which he narrowly defeated Scioli with 51 percent of the vote. His four-year term…

Her handpicked successor, Daniel Scioli, the former governor of Buenos Aires province, was not as lucky in the 2015 presidential election. Although he narrowly won the first round of voting in October, he failed to win the 45 percent of vote necessary to preclude a November runoff election,…