Former Argentine President Fernandez barely won Senate primary - radio

FILE PHOTO - Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, former Argentine President and candidate for the Senate in the mid-term primary elections, waves to supporters at her campaign headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina early August 14, 2017. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Former Argentina President Cristina Fernandez narrowly won an Aug. 13 primary vote for a Senate seat in Buenos Aires province by 0.2 percentage points, National Electoral Director Fernando Alvarez said on local radio on Tuesday.

The electoral authority last updated the count with 95.68 percent of polling stations reporting on Aug. 14, showing President Mauricio Macri's ally Esteban Bullrich ahead by 0.08 percentage points in a technical tie in the nation's largest province.