Mayor Mauricio Macri said about 350, 000 people had been affected by the torrents of rain.
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Mr Macri, a conservative in his second term as mayor, plans to run for president in 2015.
Macri, one of the wealthiest entrepreneurs in Argentina, benefited a great deal from the privatizations of the 1990's.
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Macri is seen to represent values which the average Argentinean considered important for the functioning of a good government.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The meaning of Kirchner's recent defeat
In a scathing television advertisement, the government blamed the strike on Mr Macri.
The vote for Macri represented an expression of tiredness, with the political class, long considered to be opportunistic and useless, among Argentineans.
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The vote for Mauricio Macri in Buenos Aires may well be a reflection of these feelings, and, perhaps, the beginning of the end of the Kirchner era.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The meaning of Kirchner's recent defeat
Tony Macri of the Council on Environmental Quality hosts an interactive listening session with Director of the Office of Public Engagement Jon Carson and Deputy Director Greg Nelson.
"We need to do the same with all the waterworks that are needed in the city, in greater Buenos Aires and in the province of Buenos Aires, " Macri said.
Mauricio Macri, a candidate defined as being center-right was elected in Buenos Aires and in the South, the winner was Fabiana Rios, a candidate who describes herself as center-left.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The meaning of Kirchner's recent defeat
In a society characterized by a lack of legal security, corruption, chaos, impunity, and economic uncertainty, Macri presented what Argentine journalist Eduardo Aliverti defined as non-ideological programs:1 law, order, stability, and security.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The meaning of Kirchner's recent defeat
The governments of Fernandez and Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri sought to blame each other for the chaos, and the nation's divided media focused their coverage in ways that put one side or the other in the worst light.
Macri said Wednesday that the only solution is for the constantly warring governments to work together on expensive and long-term public works projects, creating huge underground drainage pipes to carry increasingly common torrential rains out to the Rio de la Plata.
"Facing the magnitude of what we've lived through, I insist that public works are what will change this story, " Macri said, describing one such project that was achieved through regional cooperation and a World Bank loan the kind of borrowing that Fernandez has sought to avoid.
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