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| Argentine president wins landslide re-election |
| 2011-10-24 |
| [CBS News] President Cristina Fernandez was re-elected in a landslide Sunday, winning with the widest victory margin in Argentina's history after her government spread the wealth of a booming economy. Fernandez had 53 percent of the vote after 43 percent of the polling stations reported nationwide. Her nearest challenger got just 17 percent. Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo predicted the president's share would rise as polls reported from her party's stronghold of densely populated Buenos Aires province. "Count on me to continue pursuing the project," Fernandez vowed in her victory speech. "All I want is to keep collaborating ... to keep Argentina growing. I want to keep changing history." Fernandez is Latin America's first woman to be re-elected as president, but the victory was personally bittersweet -- the first without her husband and predecessor, Nestor Kirchner, who died of a heart attack last Oct. 27. "This is a strange night for me," she said, describing her mix of emotions. "This man who transformed Argentina led us all and gave everything he had and more ... Without him, without his valor and courage, it would have been impossible to get to this point." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Once a Nation collapses, it will never be the same again. All the past glory days have parted. It becomes a vacant shadow of what they once were when Liberty was the rule of Law. |
| Posted by: newc 2011-10-24 23:24 |