The ruling coalition leads the legislative election in Argentina.
Argentina's ruling coalition leads in the polls for the October 22 legislative elections in the country's main district, where former president Cristina Kirchner seeks to return to the center of the political scene; surveys indicate that government candidate Esteban Bullrich is ahead, with a difference of between 2,5 and 4,3 points over the former president.
Reuters Argentina's ruling coalition leads in the polls for the October 22 legislative elections in the country's main district, where former President Cristina Kirchner is seeking a return to the center of the political scene, according to surveys released on Sunday.
After Cristina -- who is running for senator -- secured a narrow lead in the August primaries in the influential province of Buenos Aires, home to nearly 40 percent of the country's voters, the ruling coalition could reverse the result this month.
According to a poll by Management & Fit, which Reuters had access to, and another poll by Poliarquía for the newspaper La Nación, the government candidate Esteban Bullrich is in the lead, with a difference of between 2,5 and 4,3 points over the former president.
Bullrich, the education minister in Mauricio Macri's center-right government, would win 33,9 percent of the vote in Buenos Aires province, compared to 29,6 percent for the former center-left leader and 11,7 percent for the dissident Peronist Sergio Massa, according to Management & Fit.
The Poliarquia poll, in turn, places Bullrich at 37,7 percent, Cristina at 35,2 percent, and Massa at 12,2 percent, La Nación reported.