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CFK recovers control over both houses and with sufficient seats for quorum
Vice president Amado Boudou will act as president of the next Senate The Sunday landslide victory of President Cristina Fernandez means the coalition she leads has regained control of both houses of Congress (lost in the 2009 debacle) and with a sufficient majority to work with its own quorum.
According to the latest election results the Victory Front of Cristina Fernandez will have a block of 114 representatives out of the 257 benches that make up the Lower House. This means the VF gained 14 seats while the Kirchnerite allies have 17 (8 less); the ruling coalition independents, 13 (six less) while those openly against the Kirchnerite project but belonging to the Peronist movement, 23 (up 2).
In practical terms this means the next Argentine government will have well over the 129 votes needed for a quorum necessary to consider any initiative from the Executive.
Other parties representations include: 41 for the Radicales under the leadership of Ricardo Alfonsin who garnered 11% of the vote as presidential candidate, compared to the 54% of CFK and 17% of Hermes Binner.
Precisely Binner’s Progressive Broad Front has 22 seats (up 1), while Buenos Aires governor Mauricio Marcri’s PRO retained 12 seats, Others, 8 (down 4) and the Civic Concentration rescued 7 seats having lost 11.
Likewise in the federal Senate out of 72 benches, the Victory Front has 32 (up 1); Cristina Fernandez allies, 6 and the dissidents from her party, 9 (down 2). The Radicales from Alfonsin retained 17 benches; Binner’s Broad Front 4 (up 1) and other small groupings 4.
Economy minister Amado Boudou and elected-Vice president will be presiding over the next Senate. The new legislative will be formally taking office next December.
It is not quite clear who will be leading the atomized opposition to the CFK majorities, if Binner’s Broad Front, if Buenos Aires City governor Macri (considered a very strong candidate for 2015) or the Radicales that have 41 members in the Lower House and 17 Senators but their leader suffered a defeat far worse than expected.
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Read all commentsWith the Peronists in charge of all branches of government watch out. You will have high inflation, currency devaluation, increasing totalitarianism and more government theft of resources. Anyone with a brain (unless he is part of the Peronist mafia) has moved his assets outside the country. The smart ones are seeking citizenships outside the country.
Oct 25th, 2011 - 11:26 am 0So the government parties and the opposition parties are one and the same !
Oct 25th, 2011 - 12:34 pm 0No wonder the government got re-elected then.
With nobody to hold the Government to account, all we can say say is “Long Live The Status Quo!”
And one of the shameful and sad parts of this, is that even when the opposition controlled the congress, they could not get together to really oppose the CFK government, but spent their time infighting as to which party had the “biggest one”.
Oct 25th, 2011 - 06:14 pm 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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