Argentina election reaffirms Kirchner

with the economy growing in double digits, the candidates kirchner supported were heavily favored although an opposition candidate took a seat in the contested city of buenos aires race and several radical party candidates took seats in the provinces...

Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner has strengthened his support in legislative elections, in which his wife won a Senate seat.

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According to exit polls, Mr Kirchner's allies will firmly control the Senate with 40 of 72 Senate seats, and 85-100 seats in the lower house of 257 deputies - still short of a majority.

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Mauricio Macri . . . finished first in the voting in the capital, Buenos Aires. He beat Foreign Minister Rafael Bielsa, who was backed by the president.

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