MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Recovering politics.

Sponsored by the United Nations Development Agency political leaders from Latinamerican countries are meeting in Buenos Aires to discuss the recovery of electorates trust in political parties, democracy transparency and how to improve living conditions of the people

The ambitious forum will concentrate discussions beginning with ways to establish a tighter control over financial movements in the global world. "We want to create a world consensus on a very sensible issue, that politics must be above business interests, but politics must also be sufficiently transparent as to legitimize political parties and recover citizens trust in political leadership and political systems", said Argentine Home Secretary Federico Storani. Mr. Storani added that not so long ago "our democracies were exposed and subject to military irruptions, but now world financial markets and their speculations can have devastating political consequences". President Fernando De la Rúa and Foreign Secretary Rodríguez Giavarini will officially inaugurate the three days deliberations that will include Chilean Home Secretary José Miguel Inzulza; Brazilian presidential hopeful Ciro Gómez; Peruvian presidential candidate, Alan García; former Uruguayan president Luis Alberto Lacalle; former US Energy Secretary Bill Richardson; Sweden's UN Ambassador Pierre Schori, Italian Senator Gianfrnco Pasquino. In the host delegation, former vicepresident Carlos Alvarez; former Finance Minister, Domingo Cavallo; Buenos Aires Mayor, Aníbal Ibarra, Ambassadors Angel Rozas and Raúl Alaconda Sempé