Landslide re-election win for Buenos Aires mayor

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http://news.yahoo.com/landslide-election-win-buenos-aires-mayor-233543142.html

....BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Buenos Aires's conservative Mayor Mauricio Macri won re-election Sunday by a wide margin over the candidate backed by Argentina's left-of-center president.

With 97 percent of the ballots counted, Macri had 64 percent of the votes in the runoff election to 36 percent for Sen. Daniel Filmus, who was hand-picked by President Cristina Fernandez to run against one of her strongest opponents.

In his victory speech, Macri called for institution-building and teamwork so that Argentina can accomplish goals that reach beyond any one political term. Without criticizing Fernandez by name, he was describing a way of governing radically different from the rule-by-decree populism that Fernandez calls her "model."

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\As mayor of Argentina's capital, Macri has been a powerful counterpoint to the national government and considered running against Fernandez in this year's presidential election before deciding on a safer re-election bid.