Svobodna Dnevnik

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El Correo Internacional

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Magentina: Emiliano Lafuente is reelected as Prime Minister
By: Serafina Villadiego
Published: Alvan, 1583


Lafuente has been Prime Minister since 1578

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Emiliano Lafuente was reelected as Prime Minister after won a 164-141 vote in the National Assembly. He has been Prime Minister since early 1578.

Although the center-left Social Democratic Party was the most voted political party again, even increasing their MPs to 119, they failed to gain enough support from other political parties. The government coalition, Liberal Party and Action for the Republic, increased their number of representatives to 96, but not enough to obtain a majority by their own.

The great surprise was the Conservative Party, which ended third with 68 MPs, a considerably increased compared to 39 four years ago, and their best result in decades. After not long but complicated negotiations, the Conservative Party accepted to form a coalition government with the coalition led by Prime Minister Emiliano Lafuente. Still, they needed the abstention of the nationalist MSM, which was acheived only after Lafuente accepted to sign an agreement on an immigration reform.

It is likely that Emiliano Martino, the Conservative leader, will become Minister of Defense in the new government, along a few other ministries. The last time that the Conservative Party was in the national government was in 1503-1506, under the government of Conservative Prime Minister Patricio Espada, the only Conservative Prime Minister in Magentinian history in the Second Republic.

Lafuente, the ninth Liberal Prime Minister -the fourth in the 16th century-, has however shifter many traditional policies of the centrist party, and it is expected that the new term will bring some important changes in financial, trade, immigration, and foreign policy.