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utado the provinces of Cat-, La Pampa, Mendoza, e elec ovinc Alliance became the umbrella for repentant K Radicals, the and Patricia Bullrich, prominent Deputies from the province and city of Buenos Aires, respectively. Perhaps the most Notes on Recent Elections / Electoral Studies 29 (2010) 171–195174Buenos Aires. Seats in the Chamber are allocated according to population and range from the five-seat minimum for para una República Igualitaria), who had come in (a distant) second to Fernández in the 2007 presidential race. The Peronist opposition to the Kirchners formed a center-right alliance of its own, headed by the Republican Proposal (Propuesta Republicana, PRO) of Mauricio Macri, a prominent businessman and soccer club president who became mayor of Buenos Aires in 2007. Macri forged an alliance with a rightwing faction of the PJ that included another q For their comments and advice I thank Agustina Giraudy and Marcelo Nazareno