Hard to believe now but the decision to advance the Buenos Aires Province voting at provincial level was at the time a defensive strategy to dodge the anticipated libertarian steamroller in next month’s national midterms. Does Sunday’s win mark an irreversible road towards Axel Kicillof becoming the first Buenos Aires Province governor ever to be elected president within its current boundaries dating back to 1880? The definition of insanity as expecting different results from the same methods works rather better here. Nevertheless, there is room for doubt as to whether Kicillof is “condemned to success” (dixit Eduardo Duhalde, the only Buenos Aires Province governor since Bartolomé Mitre to reach the presidency, albeit not via the ballot-box). Greater Buenos Aires) house over 71 percent of the provincial population but are represented by 33 of the 92 provincial deputies or barely 35 percent with these inequities apparently more deeply felt in the Third Section than the First.