Argentina’s next head of state and government Alberto Fernández is. The 60-Year-old won the presidential election on Sunday, according to Figures from the electoral authority, with around 48 percent of the vote, defeating the conservative incumbent Mauricio Macri.
This came to about 40 percent of the remainder is distributed to the remaining four applicants. Until Monday, the ballot papers were counted in 97 percent of the polling stations out. The once-rich country is in a deep economic and financial crisis. The inflation rate is more than 50 percent.
Macri congratulated Fernandez on Sunday evening (local time). Fernández appeared on Monday at a Breakfast with Macri in the presidential Palace. Macri stressed the importance of an orderly transfer of power.
return to Peroni most
the Power will be Handed back to the Peroni, the dominant political currents in the South American country since the first presidency of Juan Perón from 1946 – if not exactly a military dictatorship.
Argentina has turned away again and again by the Peronism, is returned to in times of crisis – such as after the bankruptcy of 2001, but often to him. Of Peronism brings together various ideological currents.
Fernández is regarded as a moderate center-left politician. His Vice-President Cristina Kirchner, however, is a polarizing figure. Against the Ex-head of state, which replaced in 2007 by its now deceased husband Néstor Kirchner in office, and by 2015, ruled, run, several procedures because of corruption allegations. It stands for a protectionist economic policy and with the International monetary Fund (IMF).
restrictions on foreign currency purchase
won As Fernández and Kirchner in August, the General primaries clearly lost the national currency, the Peso once again significantly – probably because a possible return of Kirchner got to Power investors. After the election, Argentina’s Central Bank decided Monday to the purchase of foreign Exchange for private individuals to restrict for the time being, on 200 US dollars a month, as it was said, to the state reserves in the face of “great uncertainty” to.
Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro had been threatened with an exit from the South American States, Alliance, Mercosur in the case of an electoral victory for Fernández in the neighbouring country. “Argentina has made a bad decision,” said Bolsonaro in on Monday night. He is not going to congratulate Fernández. The EU and the Mercosur countries had achieved by the end of June, a political agreement on the establishment of the largest free trade zone in the world.
Sunday was the ninth anniversary of the death of Néstor Kirchner. “I never thought that I would be on this date so happy,” said his 66-year-old widow on a late Sunday evening in front of their followers. “Nestor is not dead, he lives among the people” sang this.
hope from social programs
The voters of Peroni, the most prices and a return to the social programs of the Kirchners hope to lower food. “The money is simply not enough,” said the 52-year-old worker, Clemente García at the victory celebration in Buenos Aires. “You don’t get a salary, comes to but until the end of the month.”
Fernández, once Néstor Kirchner’s Cabinet chief, to on 10. December be sworn in. The country could run out of until then, the reserves, and warned the economic Advisor Marina Dal Poggetto. “We are facing a currency, banking and debt crisis.” The outgoing government and the newly elected would have to work together to stabilize the situation quickly.
The IMF had not granted to Argentina last year, a record-breaking stand-by loan of 57 billion dollars, in the face of crisis, the last instalment due be paid but. The new IMF Chief, Kristalina Georgieva congratulated Fernández on Monday on Twitter to the victory. She is looking forward to working with the government. (ij/chk/sda)
Created: 28.10.2019, 17:09 PM
