MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Change is just beginning says candidate Cristina Kirchner

Argentine Senator and presidential candidate Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said that in Argentina “change is just beginning” because the current President Kirchner administration has managed to reinstate the constitutional democratic system.

Closing her visit to Mexico with her husband President Kirchner, candidate Cristina was interviewed by CNN describing the extent of the expression "change is just beginning", which surprised Mexican hosts and back in Argentina. The candidate recalled that the expression was not new since it had been first launched in the province of Mendoza during the official celebration of May 25, or the May Revolution, one of the dates most venerated in the Argentine historic calendar. "Change is just beginning means that we have achieved the reinstatement of the value of institutions (in Argentina) so now a more in depth reform is needed, more subtle, an intensification which demands addressing the future with strategic relevance". Mrs. Kirchner also talked about the communicational policy of the Argentine government which she defined as "direct contact with the people". President Kirchner is known for not having granted a single press interview during his almost four years in office but makes it a point regularly, from Government House, to criticize press headlines and what he calls "misinformation and campaigns intentionally guided to erode his government in favor of vested interests". However Mrs Kirchner underlined that the government's communication policy is "observed, transmitted, criticized and far from supported by all media, but that I believe is how democracy works". President Kirchner addressing the cream of Mexican businessmen and the Mexican Foreign Trade Council also used the slogan "a new institutionalism" as the framework that has helped Argentina's economic expansion in the last few years, calling on investors to take advantage of the country's "legal certainty and respect for the rule of the law". Argentina "is absolutely stable", said Kirchner who admitted that in the nineties massive investments were directed to the energy sector, but refused to admit that the country is currently undergoing an "energy crisis". "We don't talk about energy crisis. Argentina is undergoing the tensions of growth. We've grown almost 50% in four year and a half and we climbed out of a recessive process with no investments in electrical infrastructure", asserted Kirchner. By 2010 the energy system will have added 8.725 MW "that will accompany the rate of expansion", he said signaling "clear political motives" behind criticisms to the current energy infrastructure investment policy. "Let us hope that the (Mrs) president then, in 2010, is asked the same question" said Kirchner playing with the possible victory of his wife in the October election. "That would mean the country was still expanding".