Cristina Fernandez is the President-elect of Argentina, and wife of outgoing President Néstor Kirchner.
In the October 2007 general election, Fernández ran for her country's presidency, representing the ruling Front for Victory party...
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Cristina Fernandez is the President-elect of Argentina, and wife of outgoing President Néstor Kirchner.
In the October 2007 general election, Fernández ran for her country's presidency, representing the ruling Front for Victory party. She won the election with nearly 45% of the vote, and a 20% lead over her nearest rival
Populist leaders around Latin America are increasingly making legal and political moves to silence their media critics, the president of the Inter American Press Association said Friday. Tactics include revoking broadcast licenses, fostering hostility toward journalists and giving a free hand to government supporters who have attacked broadcast stations, newsrooms and printing plants. "We are extremely concerned at the growing level in recent weeks of harassment and violence in various... Read Full Story
Argentina's election The Kirchners make a dash for it Hoping it’s not the exit AS ARGENTINA’S president in 2004, Néstor Kirchner pushed a bill through Congress that pinned all future federal elections on the fourth Sunday of October. The intention was that incumbents should not benefit from holding them at their political convenience. Five years on, his successor—his wife, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner—is meddling with the law to bring forward this year’s mid-term elections to June. The... Read Full Story
A new proposal from Argentina president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has the country’s tech community stratching their heads. Her pitch: to nearly double taxes on technology products that are not manufactured or assembled in the province of Tierra del Fuego, including notebooks, cell phones and digital cameras.
Oddly, few of these devices are actually made there. In fact, Argentina imports the vast majority of them from elsewhere entirely. So the tax would affect a majority of Argentines... Read Full Story
Initial exit polls from Argentina's parliamentary election Sunday suggested a defeat for President Cristina Kirchner's ruling party. "The party in power risks losing their majority in the chamber of deputies, having lost six seats in the province of Buenos Aires alone," said political scientist Rosendo Fraga, citing television exit polls conducted by his institute, New Majority. Buenos Aires province is home to around 40 percent of the 28 million Argentines eligible to vote in the election... Read Full Story
The ruling party of President Cristina Kirchner and her husband, former leader Nestor Kirchner, lost seats in both houses of parliament in the midterm election, multiple exit polls showed. The Kirchner power couple risks losing control of Congress for the first time since they came to power as their incumbent Peronist Party lost seats, according to at least five polls. "The party in power risks losing their majority in the chamber of deputies having lost six seats in the province of Buenos... Read Full Story
Argentines voted Sunday in parliamentary elections widely seen as a plebiscite on the rule of President Cristina Kirchner and her husband Nestor, the former president. After a six-year rule, the Kirchner couple is struggling to keep a hold on Argentina's Senate and faces the prospect of losing the majority in the lower house of Congress. Some 28 million people were eligible to vote in the election, with half of the 247 seats in the chamber of deputies and a third of 72 Senate seats in play... Read Full Story
Early election results showed Argentina's first couple in a close fight for their political survival in elections that threatened to erode President Cristina Fernandez's congressional majorities and seal the fate of one of the country's biggest political dynasties. Even the popular former President Nestor Kirchner — Fernandez's husband and predecessor — was trailing late Sunday in his bid for a seat from Buenos Aires province. With 21 percent of the vote counted, Kirchner had just 31.9... Read Full Story
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentines cast ballots in congressional elections on Sunday and are expected to throw out allies of President Cristina Fernandez in a rejection of her interventionist economic policies and combative style. Fernandez, a center-leftist who in 2007 succeeded her husband ex-President Nestor Kirchner, has stagnated with a 30 percent approval rating as Latin America's No. 3 economy hits turbulence after a six-year expansion. Polls show Fernandez's wing of the ruling... Read Full Story
Argentina's president and her predecessor husband are fighting for their political survival in congressional elections that have become a referendum on their populist economic policies and autocratic leadership style. President Cristina Fernandez — who has nationalized pension funds and waged a four-month battle over taxes with the powerful farm sector in a bid to increase state control over the economy — has seen her approval ratings plummet to 29 percent this year. Her husband, former... Read Full Story
Argentines voted on Sunday in parliamentary elections widely seen as a plebiscite on the rule of President Cristina Kirchner and her husband Nestor, the former president. After a six-year rule, the Kirchner couple is struggling to keep a hold on Argentina's Senate and faces the prospect of losing the majority in the lower house of Congress. Some 28 million people were eligible to vote in the election, with half of the 247 seats in the chamber of deputies and a third of 72 Senate seats in... Read Full Story
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