Leftist Deputy Luis Zamora claims he was also threatened, along with Peronists Kirchner and Rodríguez Saá.

Amid growing allegations of a government conspiracy to assassinate presidential candidates, government spokesmen vehemently denied the existence of such a plot and said that Peronist President Eduardo Duhalde will remain uninvolved in upcoming elections. In a statement yesterday, presidential spokesman Eduardo Amadeo dismissed charges levelled by Néstor Kirchner, the Peronist governor of Santa Cruz province and a presidential hopeful, of persecution and threats against his life by the SIDE intelligence agency in collusion with Duhalde’s caretaker regime.

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