Last week a federal judge as a preliminary to ruling on the possibility decided that he could at least stand in his Justicialist Party's primary.

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Mr Yabran's downfall owed much to a struggle for control of the ruling Justicialist Party between Mr Menem and Eduardo Duhalde, governor of Buenos Aires province.

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All this, some suspect, is really manoeuvring to ensure Mr Menem's continued hold on the Justicialist Party, as against its likely presidential candidate and his own bitter rival Eduardo Duhalde, governor of Buenos Aires.

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