Argentina’s Fernandez reshuffles Cabinet after crisis week
Al Jazeera
President appoints Tucuman Provincial Governor Juan Manzur as Cabinet chief replacing Santiago Cafiero who was named foreign minister.
Argentine President Alberto Fernandez has reshuffled his Cabinet, looking to draw a line under a bruising week that saw infighting within the governing Peronist Judicialist Party threaten to derail the government coalition.
Late Friday night’s reshuffle, after a tug-of-war between more moderate and other factions within the government, saw new ministers named in the key roles of Cabinet chief, foreign minister and agricultural minister.
The centre-left Fernandez has been fighting against a Cabinet revolt from ministers allied with the hard-left wing of his party since a sharp defeat in a midterm primary election last Sunday put the government’s grip on Congress at risk.