7D (Argentina) of Clarín is over. As time passed without a sentence on the actual topic, the Supreme Court declared that the injunction should not extend beyond December 7, 2012, without a sentence. The government announced in September, during a spot, that they would sell Clarín's licences if they had not proposed a plan to do so themselves on December 7. The spot used the name "7D" for it, which was incorporated in public discourse since then. On 9 December 2012, around 800 thousand persons went to Plaza De Mayo of Argentina for support to the president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and
YPF Investment in exploration at YPF as a percentage of profits had been far below those in most other Repsol subsidiaries. Market analysts and Repsol blamed the decline in exploration and production on government controls on exports and prospecting lease awards, and price controls on domestic oil and gas. Political risks and government intervention, including price controls, have discouraged foreign investment in oil production in Latin America in general. President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner raised YPF frequently in speeches during March 2012, claiming that underinvestment and excessive dividends at the firm had caused declines in output. Governors in six fossil-fuel producing