[R-P] [Marxism] Cristina Fernandez, First Woman Elected President in Argentina

[Néstor Gorojovsky]

I am happy that Cristina won. But the article from Havana does not
give her -nor her husband's- full record (raison d'état, I presume).

I hope I can write a good report on these elections, and send it to
the lists, soon.

In any case, I will write something in Spanish. If someone is
interested in a translation, just contact me.

2007/10/29, Walter Lippmann <walterlx en earthlink.net>:
> Cristina Fernandez, First Woman Elected President in Argentina
>
> Havana, Oct 29 (acn) After garnering 43,5 percent of the votes at
> Sunday's presidential elections, Argentinean Cristina Fernandez
> became the first woman to have been elected President of the South
> American nation.
>
> Fernandez will assume office amidst a favourable economic recovery
> boosted by outgoing President Nestor Kirchner over the past four
> years. "I feel, I have a double responsibility, as president and as a
> woman," said Cristina after learning that preliminary vote counting
> revealed her victory.
>
> Cristina Fernandez, who is Kirchner's wife, issued a call for unity,
> and invited all social sectors to build a better nation. She said
> that she wants to develop a joint social project which includes all
> sectors of Argentinean society, disregarding political differences.
> "I want all to join in to build the future, because we have advanced
> a lot since 2003 in our struggle against poverty and unemployment,
> and I want to call on you all without hard feelings or hatred," she
> stressed.
>
> Cristina, as the president-elect is called by Argentineans, has an
> outstanding political record that dates back to 1970. She graduated
> as Bachelor from the Faculty of Juridical and Social Sciences at the
> local university of Buenos Aires.
>
> Fernandez was elected provincial legislator at the Chamber of
> Deputies in the locality of Santa Cruz in 1989; she was re-elected to
> the post in 1993. Six years later, she was elected senator for Santa
> Cruz, and re-elected in 2001. In 2005, she was elected senator for
> Buenos Aires.
>
>
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Néstor