The turn is the second recent local setback for Ikea.
Could this local setback be an early sign that Mr Duhalde's national campaign is faltering?With 1.5m inhabitants, La Matanza has the country's fourth-longest electoral roll, after the city of Buenos Aires and the two main regional capitals, Cordoba and Santa Fe.
In 1972 73 this led not only to local economic setbacks but to repercussions in the world commodity markets as well.
Before the biennial officially opened on June 28, König and his team faced unfulfilled financial agreements with the city of St . Petersburgand a slew of other local bureaucratic setbacks that forced staff to go unpaid for two months.
The tussle illustrates the ticklish zone that embassies inhabit in the nation's capital, straddling the aloof sphere of national sovereignty and the very local world of setbacks, curb cuts and easements.
The German and French governments have not been alone in suffering humiliating setbacks in local polls.
But despite these setbacks, the local film-makers never seem to lose sight of cinema as a force for good.
The Chinese media also speak of frequent, sometimes successful, attempts by wealthy businessmen to buy official positions or seats in local legislatures.Despite these setbacks, some reformers would like to see the village democracy system extended.
May's elections were a "disastrous result", he says, and a series of setbacks in local government has weakened the party "greater than the party hierarchy expected".
ROME, Tuesday, April 5 - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's conservative coalition suffered a staggering setback in local elections on Monday, losing several regions.
