Cristina makes it official; she will seek second term

[rabs]

Cristina speaking at the Casa Rosada today (June 21).

BUENOS AIRES - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez said on Tuesday she will run for a second term in an Oct. 23 election that polls show she could win easily, helped by brisk economic growth.

Fernandez had been expected to run in the Oct. 23 election although she kept the nation guessing for months, fueling speculation that health concerns or family pressures might persuade her to step aside.

"We're going to keep going forward . . . I always knew what I should do and what I had to do," Fernandez said in a televised speech, without saying who would be her running mate.

"How could I give up and not keep going?" said Fernandez, still dressed in black as she mourns her late husband and predecessor as president, Nestor Kirchner, who died late last year.

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Some polls show her with enough support to win the election in a first round and avert a run-off vote, thanks to robust growth in Latin America's No. 3 economy and the absence of a strong rival challenger to unite the opposition.

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http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Argentine+president+says+second+term/4983638/story.html

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At this stage it looks like four more years of kirchernismo/peronismo.

(edit to add photo that shows up.)

[naaman fletcher]

1. I'd hit it. nt.

[Wilms]

2. And then run, I have no doubt.

:eyes:

[Judi Lynn]

3. She's used to a man with strong character, someone she respected.

Would she "hit it" back?

http://thatstotallytarot.com.nyud.net:8090/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/fortune-teller.jpg


We may need help getting the answer for that one. Yah, you betcha!

[Judi Lynn]

4. Fernandez Invokes Husband in Opening Argentina Re-Election Bid

Fernandez Invokes Husband in Opening Argentina Re-Election Bid
June 21, 2011, 11:18 PM EDT

By Eliana Raszewski

June 22 (Bloomberg) -- Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said she will honor her late husband’s legacy by running for re-election in October, ending weeks of speculation about whether she would enter a race she’s favored to win by a landslide in polls.

Fernandez, 58, said yesterday that while she waited until four days before a filing deadline to announce her candidacy, she knew she’d seek a second, four-year term the day after her husband, former President Nestor Kirchner, died of a heart attack last October.

“I always knew what I had to do and what I should do,” Fernandez, dressed in black, said in a nationally-televised address from the presidential palace in Buenos Aires. “We will submit ourselves to this one more time. My decision is irrevocable.”

Since Fernandez succeeded her husband in 2007, Argentina nationalized its $24 billion pension fund industry, took over the flagship airline and fined analysts who criticized the government’s inflation index. While foreign investment has trailed its regional peers, a surge in prices for soybeans helped South America’s second-biggest economy recover from the global financial crisis and is expected to fuel growth of 7.7 percent this year, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

More:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-06-21/fernandez-invokes-husband-in-opening-argentina-re-election-bid.html