MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for May 7th 2011
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Saturday, May 7th 2011 - 04:52 UTC
Lack of serious opposition ensures Cristina Fernandez re-election next October
With less than six months to the October election President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner leads comfortably, with no serious opposition on site, and with a public opinion support of 56%, similar to when she first took office in December 2007.
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Saturday, May 7th 2011 - 04:51 UTC
Burton’s MP travels to Falklands to experience life with British armed forces
Burton’s Member of Parliament Andrew Griffiths is flying to the Falkland Islands to experience life there with the British armed forces, reports Burton Mail. MP Griffiths will travel to the South Atlantic with the RAF under the All Parliamentary Armed Services Scheme, ‘a mini- Territorial Army for MPs’.
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Saturday, May 7th 2011 - 04:50 UTC
Soybean and by products represent 25% of Argentine exports
Argentine overseas sales of soybeans and by products reached 17.3 billion US dollars in 2010, equivalent to 25.4% of total exports, according to the latest report from the country’s statistics office INDEC. In 2009 the soy complex exports represented 23.3%.
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Saturday, May 7th 2011 - 04:49 UTC
UK overwhelmingly rejects changing MP’s first-past-the-post electoral system
UK has voted overwhelmingly to reject changing the way MPs are elected - dealing a bitter blow to Nick Clegg on top of heavy Lib Dem poll losses. Officials say 19.1m people voted in the second UK-wide referendum in history - a higher than expected turnout of 41%.
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Saturday, May 7th 2011 - 04:47 UTC
Greek exit from Euro zone becomes an option; Portugal faces two-year recession
Top finance officials of the Euro zone's biggest economies met to discuss Greece's debt crisis and Athens denied a media report that it was considering whether to leave the block.
