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| Argentine president to seek re-election |
| 2011-06-23 |
| [Al Jazeera] Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the Argentine president, has announced she will seek re-election, ending months of speculation about her political plans. In a nationally televised address on Tuesday, Kirchner said, "we are once again going to go submit ourselves'' to the vote. "I always knew what I had to do because I have always had a high sense of political responsibility and what must be done,'' Kirchner, who succeeded her late husband Nestor Kirchner in 2007, said. "How could I give up and not keep going?" Tuesday's announcement should end any talk of a rival emerging from inside the Justicialist Party, her centre-left and populist Peronist grouping that has dominated Argentine politics for more than two decades. Kirchner's main rival is expected to be politician Ricardo Alfonsin, the son of an ex-president with the Radical Civic Union, another centre-left party that has the second largest showing in the Congress. Polls indicate the Argentine president lacks majority support, but might easily win re-election in the October 23 first-round vote against a divided opposition. Kirchner's plans have been a subject of speculation due to rumoured health issues and her public silence on her political future. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 it will be the nationalist weapon of choice to keep the Kirchners in power so they aren't indicted for their crimes against their constitution and theft from the Treasury. It's the same old, redux |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-06-23 22:01 |
| #4 War over the Falklands is all but assured if she's re-elected. She seems to have made it her platform. Obama would actively try to frustrate any attempt by Britain to hold the Falklands, too. Would be interesting to see how that would pan out. In the not-too-distant future Britain would be relying on the assistance of France to circumvent US attempts to surrender British territory to Latin Americans. That would be quite a turn-around from the last conflict, and an indication that the US's future alliances are with Latin America rather than the UK/commonwealth and/or Europe. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2011-06-23 19:10 |
| #3 It would be ironic if the Falklands ended up as the only habitable part of Argentina after the war. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2011-06-23 14:10 |
| #2 I'm sure someone in Great Britain is currently programming one of Britain's last Trident missiles to strike Buenos Aires as I type. War over the Falklands is all but assured if she's re-elected. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2011-06-23 13:28 |
| #1 ...From what I gather, this lady makes SecState Clinton look like Grandma Moses. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2011-06-23 07:28 |