Institucional quality and presidentialism in Argentina

During the Buenos Aires Latin America forum, Aleardo Laría analyzed the two unsolved problems of Argetina: institutional quality and presidentialism. Laría is an Argentine lawyer and journalist. He studied Law in the University of La Plata, where he participated in the founding of the University Federation of the National Revolution – a group Néstor Kirchner would later be join. By 1977 he was in exile in Spain. There, he worked as a lawyer for the General Union of Workers, a group linked with the Spanish Socialist Workers Party. He is currently a regular columnist in the newspaper “Rio Negro” and his articles are distributed by the agency “Diarios y Noticias”. He is the author of the books “The European parlamientary system: The advantages of parlamentarism” and “The populist religion: a critique of post-Marxist populism”, recently published.

Aleardo Laría, the invited speaker for the latest meeting of the Latin American forum in Buenos Aires, identified and analyzed the two unresolved problems of Argentina: institutional quality and presidentialism. Aleardo Fernando Laría Rajneri, an Argentine lawer and journalist, was born in General Roca in the province of Rio Negro. He studied Law in the University of La Plata, where he participated in the founding of the University Federation of the National Revolution (FURN) - a group Néstor Kirchner would later be join. In the province of Rio Negro he was a leading figure in the Peronist Youth, of the so-called "revolutionary tendency" and acted as lawyer for the Fruit-packers Union. By 1977 he was in exile in Spain. There, he worked as a lawyer for the General Union of Workers, a group linked with the Spanish Socialist Workers Party. He currently shares his time between Spain and Argentina, and is a regular columnist in the newspaper "Rio Negro" and his articles are distributed by the agency "Diarios y Noticias" among Argentine media outlets. As political scientist he has written two essays criticizing the presidental system and calling for the implementation of a parliamentary system: "Institutional Quality and Presidentialism: the two unresolved problems of Argentina" and "The European Parliamentary System the advantages of parliamentarism", both published by Grupo Editor Latinoamericano. His most recent book, "The populist religion: a critique of post-Marxist populism", tackles the close relationship between the presidentialist system and Latin American populism.

Horacio Fernández, Coordinator of CADAL's Business Council; Silvana Viazzu, Academia Secretary of the Productive Movement of Argentina; and Gabriel Salvia, Director General of CADAL.

Haroldo Grisanti and economist Daniel Marx.

Hernán Alberro, CADAL's Director of Programs,
and Maximilian Drechsel of the German Embassy.

Jurist Enrique Peltzer and journalist Gonzalo Peltzer.

Horacio Fernández, Aleardo Laría and Nacional Senator María Eugenia Estenssoro.

 

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