Mr Duhalde no longer holds public office, but remains the unchallenged boss of the province of Buenos Aires, where he was twice governor.
Almost half of Mr Kirchner's votes came from the sprawling province of Buenos Aires, suggesting that Mr Duhalde's longstanding political machine there is still well oiled.
National Planning Minister Julio de Vido estimated that 280, 000 people remained without power across the city and surrounding province of Buenos Aires, where most Argentines live.
The two women are standing against each other for the Senate in the province of Buenos Aires, home to 40% of Argentines and long Mr Duhalde's political bailiwick.
"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.
Mr. Videla was raised in the small rural town of Mercedes in Buenos Aires province, the son of an army colonel.
The aedes aegypti mosquito appeared in Argentina in 1986 and is now being found in 36 percent of homes in Buenos Aires province, according to Dr. Alfredo Seijo of the Hospital Munoz.
His main Justicialist rival and leading hopeful for the candidacy in 1999 is Eduardo Duhalde, governor of Buenos Aires province.
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As governor of Buenos Aires province, Mr Duhalde was a populist.
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.
But this is only one round in what promises to be a long and potentially explosive fight for control of Peronism and Buenos Aires province.
Raul Alfonsin, a former president now running a poor second as the Alliance's candidate in Buenos Aires province, has spent most of the last two years sniping from the sidelines.
Mr Duhalde also planned to organise an unofficial referendum in Buenos Aires province, home to a third of the entire Argentine electorate, on Mr Menem's would-be candidacy.
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Further attacks were reported in the industrial cities of Campana and Zarate, in Buenos Aires province, in Resistencia in the north and outside a Carrefour supermarket in San Fernando, on the outskirts of the capital.
In Buenos Aires province, home to two-fifths of the nation's electorate, recent polls have put the Peronists well ahead, with about 35% support, Frepaso next with near 30%, but the Radicals trailing on around 20%.
Mr Kirchner is less popular than Mr Menem within his own Peronist movement, and owed much of his success in the first round to the backing of Mr Duhalde's party machine in Buenos Aires province.
My journey started with a 10-hour, 700-km overnight bus ride from my home in Buenos Aires to the small town of Mercedes in Corrientes Province.
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Frepaso is strong in Buenos Aires city and in the wider province, and in the big city of Rosario, north-west of the capital.
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