Tag: #AlbertoFernandez
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President Fernandez says coronavirus vaccine issues should not be politicized
Mexico City, Feb 23 (AFP/APP): Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez said Tuesday that no crime had been committed in a scandal over coronavirus vaccine queue-jumping that forced his health minister to resign. Fernandez, on an official visit to Mexico, called the incident “reprehensible” but said that the issue of vaccines was “very sensitive” and should not…
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Argentina leader vows to make good on debt
Buenos Aires, Nov 20 (AFP/APP): President elect Alberto Fernandez said Tuesday he will make good on Argentina’s debt payments but without new austerity measures because people in his country are already hard-pressed financially. “We cannot make more fiscal adjustments because the situation is enormously complicated,” Fernandez, a center-left Peronist, said in a statement after speaking…
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Kirchner or Fernandez? Who’s really going to run Argentina?
Buenos Aires, Nov 2 (AFP/APP): Alberto Fernandez has just been elected president of Argentina but before even taking charge he faces suggestions that he is a puppet for ex-president Cristina Kirchner. Fernandez may have defeated incumbent Mauricio Macri at the polls on Sunday, but he did so with Kirchner as his running mate — and…
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Argentine frontrunner calls for unity after presidential poll
Buenos Aires, Oct 28 (AFP/APP): Argentina’s leftist presidential frontrunner Alberto Fernandez vowed Sunday to end sharp divisions between his Peronist movement and supporters of the business-friendly incumbent Mauricio Macri, as the country seeks to emerge from a crippling economic crisis. Exit polls put the 60-year-old lawyer, whose running mate is ex-president Cristina Kirchner, in the…
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Moderate Peronist Fernandez closes in on Argentine presidency
Buenos Aires, Oct 26 (AFP/APP): Alberto Fernandez has been a discreet backroom operator throughout a long career in Argentine politics, but all that could change after Sunday’s elections. Little known outside Buenos Aires politics, the 60-year-old law professor and Bob Dylan fan burst onto the international stage by trouncing President Mauricio Macri in August primaries…