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Opposition lawmakers pledge to block any re-election bid by Cristina Fernandez

Wednesday, November 7th 2012 - 04:47 UTC
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As happened in the Argentine Senate a couple of weeks ago, 107 members (out of 257) from the Lower House, and from all opposition parties, subscribed on Tuesday a manifest pledging non support for any initiative to amend the Constitution with the purpose of opening the way for a second re-election. Read full article

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  • bushpilot

    Maybe Timmerman will run.

    Maybe Maximo will run.

    Maybe someone will come home from Canada and run for president.

    Any thoughts?

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 05:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Boovis

    Maximo couldn't run without losing his breath then stopping for a gatorade and a double hot dog. With cheese.

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 05:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    Talking about election, does anybody know if Obama won or lost?
    According to Yankeeboy FredB. he was only one term president, I wonder if he was right...

    http://en.mercopress.com/2012/04/13/cristina-fernandez-and-obama-will-hold-bilateral-meeting-in-colombia

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 05:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    After N8 CFK will certainly NOT be a third term Dominatrix

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 07:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Orbit

    I wouldn't worry at all about a third term, quite the opposite in fact. I can see a cabinet meeting very soon wherein CFK, Timmerman and co all sit around looking at each other saying “but I thought YOU knew what you were doing?!?”. Swiftly followed by “shite, we've made a real pigs ear of this haven't we. We've got the cash, how do we get out of this mess alive?”

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 08:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Uruguayan_And_Proud

    Noooo, i need argentina to keep your current president or get a new, even worse president so my plan can continue its current course. Horrible news, people how arn´t blinded by CFK..dang it

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 10:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • surfer

    I think the rest of the world is torn on this.

    On the one hand they would like a complete change of government to alleviate the domiciled Argentinian people's suffering and allow the economy to recover and rebuild.

    On the other hand there are many who would like her to continue in power for many years in order to weaken Argentina such that they can no longer pose a threat as a colonialist or in their piracy, financial or otherwise.

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 11:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Benson

    Obama won.

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 11:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Furry-Fat-Feck

    Some comments here are interesting. I have always believed that the 'support' Argentina gets from its neighbours over its Malvinista claims for example are designed to encourage Argentina into doing something really really stupid. Afterall the Argentine armed forces never really recovered from the beating they took in 1982 and successive governments simply will not invest in or even maintain what they have left. Another beating would simply make matters worse and reduce the Argentine threat still further. Of course if they damaged the British armed forces in the process then all the better. War weakens the protagonists, even the winners. If you can stay out of it you are the real winner.

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 01:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    SPANISH NAVY INCURSION: PICARDO ACCUSES SPAIN OF COMMITTING AN ‘ACT OF AGGRESSION’

    Activity of the type seen today by the Spanish Navy is a scandalous act of aggression which is illegal, imprudent, unprofessional and irresponsible on the part of whoever authorised it. This action is in breach of the obligations which NATO allies and EU partners owe each other.

    “The United Kingdom Government will no doubt respond in a manner which appropriately reflects the seriousness of this matter and the undoubted British sovereignty, jurisdiction and control of these waters as if this invasion of territorial sea had occurred off the coast of the United Kingdom
    [we said it once, we will say it again, ]
    Until they are physically stopped they will push and push,
    And the more you let them,, the more advantage they will take,
    Until the British government says, enough is enough,
    The next intrusion will be boarded apprehended, impounded, or Sunk.
    ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
    http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=26623
    ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
    the only real chance CFK has, is to copy spain and provoke the brits,

    or its good bye to plastics,
    still,
    we are very confidant that pirate hunter or sussy will step forward to be elected the next hazel nut of Argentina.lol.

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 01:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pirate Love

    “lawmakers pledge to block any re-election”
    not a chance the re-election is already a done deal in argentinas blooming dictocracy with a vote of 56%

    @10, a lesson taught woud be a lesson learnt, supposed ally or not.

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 02:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Idlehands

    I wonder if they could accidentally torpedo the next intruder? After all - accidents happen.

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 02:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    Bush I think pirate hunter should come home to the roost and inplement that 50 to 150% import tax and then start the nuclear defense. lol
    ANy one the Octocer trade surpls figures? They reported it in YTD numbers....October YTD was 11.5 billion.....and Sept was 10.6 billion. The RGs will still lament a surplus, but also the first time under a billion and the trend continues the downward spiral.

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 03:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pete Bog

    Dear Argentina,

    Please elect Pirate Hunter as your next president, or even Timmidman as both these guys will help the Falkland Islands get the maximum of positive publicity for their side of the story.
    If you can wangle it please re-elect CFK, as she has at last enticed the FIG MLA's out of complacent hibernation to put their case to the world.

    In saying this I offer my commiserations in advance that your economy will be so messed up that you will further slide back as a country,especiallly when Pirate Hunter's nuclear device detonates and takes you back to the stone age
    . When you have hit rock bottom and you make Pirate Hunter or Timmidman walk the plank and get a decent leader with political peripheral vision, you could drop or suspend your historically dishonest Falklands claim and they might them be able to lend you some money provided you guarantee to pay it back.

    Yours,

    Pete Bog
    PS: If you actually want to make the best of your country instead of sliding into self-destruction vote for Simon 68

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 03:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • bushpilot

    Can Canadian citizens run for president in Argentina?

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 03:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    ALEX VARGAS for Argentine President !!

    Alex is well qualified.

    He went to Vaughn St Acadamy in Toronto, at Dufferin/ Eglinton.
    Graduated from the Bacalaureate program there.

    That is a low-income neighbourhood, known as “The Jungle”.
    Notorious for racial violence and poverty there.

    He should have lots of explosive rhetoric stored up for political speeches :-)

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 04:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Miss troy tempest

    @16 troy tempest
    shut up you old woman!

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 04:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • agent999

    @17
    hi Mr. Sussie

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 05:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • jkw

    I come to this comment section so I can taste the British colonial experience.

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 05:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ProRG_American

    There ill be no re-election. The public does not want one. Not bacause they don't like their President but because the Argentine people are committed to their Democracy and believe in term limits at the highest levels of power. Besides, a re-lection requires a constitutional reform. There is not the majority in Congrass to achieve this reform and there won't be in hte next 3 years. Besides the people are happy with the Constitution they have. Case Closed!

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 05:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    @20 Pro RG

    Is that the official answer script that La Campora has been working on, prior to tomorrow's protests against a corrupt government in Argentina ??

    Is Sussie leaving with you? Can he get a job as a 'beach boy' in Venezuela, too??

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 06:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    Poor argieland CFK lost in a desert with nothing in sight,

    Still,
    One can talk to ones self, they are great at talking..

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 07:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • We got your Fragata

    I can't wait for tomorrow, I am hoping for a coup d'etat to drag Kretina out of the house in Olivos by her hair and they hang her, Maximo and her UGLY daughter Flor at the gallows in the plaza de Mayo! We hope! We hope!

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 07:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    17 Miss troy tempest

    Another new username Sussie...?

    19 jkw

    “I come to this comment section so I can taste the British colonial experience.”

    Welcome aboard Newbie!! .......... How is that working out for you?

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 08:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    @24 2 old 4 TV21

    “Jkw” is another Troll name. He seems to be associated with BK.

    They struck up an artificial banter a few days ago.

    Jkw's post consisted of a single sentence listing every hackneyed charge listed in the La Campora Playbook.

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 08:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Joe Bloggs

    24

    Almost certainly won't be a newbie. Mark my words. A newbie wouldn't open up with that crappy BS about coming here to try the colonial experience or whatever they wrote; I'm too bored to scroll back up and check.

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 08:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Guzz

    26
    So you decided to share your boredom with the rest of us...

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 08:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    25 Troy Tempest & 26 Joe Bloggs

    Well that's me told. Next time I shall greet them them in the time honoured tradition and then tell them to “go forth and multiply”.

    Anyway, bad news about CFK huh? Imagine that? so what do we all think then?

    Is she going to tarred and feathered and dragged through the streets?

    Or will she be tied to the gun carriage wheels and flogged?

    Or just burned at the stake?

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 08:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Joe Bloggs

    27

    If I'm bored on here I'm not going to let you have all the fun.

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 08:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Guzz

    28
    You don't seem to think. At all. Whatsoever.
    It's just the unlucky reaction of half processed external ideas combined with compulsive and constant need of hearing you own voice. In this case, reading your own words...

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 08:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    30 Guzz

    .......and you are a fraud.... by your own admission..... and love to “try” and sound more educated than you actually are. ( by the way, how is that 'western' education thing working out for you? )

    Didn't you know son? a slavish concern for the use of unintelledgable phrases is the sign of a bankurpt intellect“

    So please, Mister ”I love Uruguay so much I live in Sweden / Denmark“ How can I ”Hear my own voice” on this internet thread?

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 09:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Guzz

    Tool
    I'll tell you how;

    “ In this case, reading your own words...”

    That's how... Son.

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 09:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Joe Bloggs

    Took me a long time to realise it but I'm pretty sure he is TTT. He displayed another characteristic in his last post.

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 09:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    @33 Yup. : ) Same style, different persona.

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 09:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Guzz

    Joe
    I bet many thing takes you a long time to realise. Hopefully you are luckier with other matters than this one though...

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 09:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    30 Guzz

    Oh son, son, son!!! What we have here is another text book case of “Projection”.

    “You don't seem to think. At all. Whatsoever.
    It's just the unlucky reaction of half processed external ideas combined with compulsive and constant need of hearing you own voice. In this case, reading your own words...”

    You are obviously the victim of some inner turmoil and the only way you can exturnalise it is by lashing out at other people. If you just subistute the word “you” in this text for the word “I” then it's clear. You are at war with yourself

    32 Guzz

    I know what you meant, by the way, I was just seeing if you were so blinded by your own hate that you would rise to the bait.... and guess what son? I was right......

    “Oh dangle a line over this side!!! Them fishes are biting tonight!!”

    LOL

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 09:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Guzz

    “Oh son, son, son!!!”
    That phrase is taken from a weird Brit family get together, isn't it?

    Elaine
    I'm sorry, mylady, but I can't stress it out enough. You folks set the standard, my bar is very flexible. If you want a serious conversation, that's what tou get. If you want childish insults, that can be arranged as well...

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    @31 2old4 TV 21

    “.......and you are a fraud.... by your own admission..”

    2 Old, didn't you know that as soon as his definition of a “Gusano” was revealed to a sort of scumbag who left SA because they could not freeload there anymore, (paraphrasing here) he changed his story. it seems now thst Guzzano was “exiled” to Europe because he was a brave Socialist, fighting Operation Condor in the 70's.
    That would make him 60 to 70 years old now.
    He says he has now 'returned' to SA. He did not say, “ Uruguay”.

    Recently, when Guzzano mentions Uruguay, he gives a “wink”.

    Very TTT, he loves to give out pet names to the opposition, and feels hurt when they do mot like him.

    FWIW

    LOL

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 09:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    37 Guzz

    Shocked at being found out are we son? Now, are you going to run ( again ) or stay and show the “Real” Guzz?

    LOL

    33 Joe Bloggs & 34 ElaineB

    whY? what makes you two so sure?

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 09:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Guzz

    Mariposa
    Nothing you say changes the fact that I am who I am. The fact that you doubt it or even think I'm lying, is nothing that keeps me sleepless at night...

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 09:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    @40 Guzzano

    Ok, keep dreaming...

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 09:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Joe Bloggs

    37 Guzz

    'my bar is very flexible'
    They have medication for that problem these days.

    39 tooldtodieyoung

    He doesn't care about the Falklands
    He can't help but counter-attack 10-fold any Brit or Yank who attacks South America
    He tries to make a point of being more intelligent than the rest of us
    He purposely chooses to ignore people who start to rattle him
    He is an attention seeker
    He hates it when he isn't the centre of attention

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 09:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Guzz

    Joe
    I don't think you are being fair now, tool is not at all as you describe him...

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 10:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    The power failures have started already in argentina and it is not even summer.

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 10:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    @44 Poppy

    I hope we are still friends.

    “Power failures ”???

    What do you mean? Is there a link?
    Do you mean CFK is losing power?? :-D

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 10:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    It seems that the year 2015,
    Will be a good year for the brits,
    Two elections and hopefully one referendum, or at least a date.

    1, Cameron fighting for his life, and a second term
    2, CFK will she or wont she, [probably not]
    3, referendum over the EU.

    Could be a very interesting year,
    In the meantime,
    Any bowel movement on the poor little orphaned ship,
    Abandoned by its family,
    CFK and Tinman…

    .

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 11:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ptolemy

    @44
    Was without power for 24 Hrs. Today I have power but it is out all around me. No subte either. You are right, it's not even summer yet,..does not bode well.

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 11:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Guzz

    47
    My guess is that you are “fichado”...

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 11:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    ?

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 11:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • redpoll

    The trolls are fighting in the playground, with snowballs or mud I dont know. There have been no new sensible ideas for weeks.No adult discussion at all so I am signing off

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 11:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • kelperabout

    If any of the CFK supporters has any sence they would all run. Her time is coming to an end and Argentina has a new oppertunity to start to repair the years of desperation inflicted on her people. Then drop the stupid Falkland islands claim and maybe , just maybe the Falkland Islanders might start relaxing a little. Though i reckon it would take many generations to even begin to build a trust relationship with Argentina after what they inflicted upon us in 82. Those acts will never be forgiven ever.

    Nov 07th, 2012 - 11:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    Sydney :
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2Z_M6BS295Q#!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2Z_M6BS295Q#!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2Z_M6BS295Q#!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2Z_M6BS295Q#!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2Z_M6BS295Q#!

    Until 8pm in any particular country, that is when protests by Argentines in other countries will begin.

    Nov 08th, 2012 - 01:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • British_Kirchnerist

    This is silly posturing by the right, if Cristinistas sweep Congress next year on a reform ticket and the 7 of the 28 anti Senators lose their seats, the momentum will be impossible for a few lukewarm Senators (5 is over 2 3rds of 72 you know) to block, and ma'am may yet indeed be a “third term Dominatrix”. I like the sound of the “Cristina for ever” group =)

    Nov 09th, 2012 - 11:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    Can anyone tell me what the fuck asslips uses to gly when her doctor tells her she can't make the 40 hour flight to Spain?

    Nov 09th, 2012 - 01:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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