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Mr Kirchner's bullying has caused some foreign utilities to pull out of Argentina.

Still others have gone on shopping binges overseas, gobbling up foreign utilities.

Mr Proglio is said to favour offering foreign utilities other designs, for instance from Westinghouse, a unit of Toshiba of Japan.

Foreign utilities are primarily interested in using BE's sites for building a new generation of atomic plants, although the complicated structure of BE's business may hamper some bids.

He adopted a hostile tone towards overseas interests, tearing up contracts with some foreign utilities firms, and refusing to speak with the US Ambassador to Buenos Aires for almost four years.

The move brought complaints from Italy and the European Union, which accuse the government-owned Électricité de France, the supplier of 90percentt of French electricity, of expanding abroad even as Paris blocks entry of foreign utilities into France.

After permitting price hikes for commercial and industrial users earlier this year, it has secured deals with a few more foreign utility firms.

For example, investors who want to buy a foreign utility -- in Spain, for example -- would still have to pay much attention to local economic factors, he said.

Moreover, it is still threatening to disregard supposedly binding rulings against it by the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, a World Bank tribunal, following indemnity claims brought by foreign utility companies.

First in line is the power company EDP, in which the government is hoping to sell a stake of about 20 percent to a foreign utility for about €2.5 billion.

The World Bank and foreign utility companies could make tempting new targets".His politics are of confrontation and polarisation, of the daily plebiscite," says Jorge Castro, former secretary of strategic planning.