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Battling the Justice system, Cristina Fernandez main political battle this year
Reforming or democratizing the Argentine Justice system and the Supreme Court is forecasted to become the main political battle of this year, according to Rosendo Fraga a low profile Argentine historian and a sharp political analyst. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“We do not like the courts standing up to the legislature, so lets take them over. errr, I mean democratise them.”
Mar 02nd, 2013 - 08:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina = Fascist State.
What she really means is - “We need to revise the Courts so I can stand for re-election - then later we can revise them again so we cancel this silly system of having elections anyway.”
Mar 02nd, 2013 - 09:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mar 02nd, 2013 - 01:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I was amazed to see that she praised “the economic and social achievement of the ten years of ‘Kirchnerism’ ” What are those “achievements”? The “economy” appears to have stopped dead, with a few exceptions. Inflation is heading for 30%. Is that good? The “currency” has a similar worth to bog roll. Is that good? Have all the villas miseria been cleared? Have any of them been cleared? How's the non-existent dollar clamp? Are SIX rail crashes in two years an economic or a social achievement? 74 dead, 1,289 injured! Meat contaminated with drugs, fruit and vegetables contaminated with chemicals. Endemic corruption. Lies about economic figures. Endemic street crime, including murder. These are economic and social achievements of 'Kirchnerism'? What was it like before?
Mar 02nd, 2013 - 04:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wow, you just described the Kerchners Republic of Arrogantina!
Mar 02nd, 2013 - 06:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Fancy that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#2 you are so right. These elections really just get in the way of democracy anyway.
Mar 02nd, 2013 - 08:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't forget she has single handed stopped DFI, thus spurring jobs, increasing a tax base and thereby having the ability to improve infrastructure and society. Why would so do anything that would stop her from creating a fiefdom. I wonder if she does not go out much anymore is that she fears a bullet? No such luck.
Damn, her next mission is to sort out world hunger. Wonder how she will get on with that?
Mar 02nd, 2013 - 10:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Has she actually read the constitution ?????
Mar 03rd, 2013 - 12:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0First the media
Mar 03rd, 2013 - 03:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0Second the judiciary
Third the election process
The the dictatorship will have been formally created. Hitler, her role model did it. Now it is her turn. The real question will anyone stop her?
When will they wake up?
7 reality check
Mar 03rd, 2013 - 08:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And the middle East?? Is she going to sort all that nonsense out as well?
and after that, she can then sort out why they only load “Diet Pepsi” into the vending machine at work............. now that IS annoying.
conqueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer aka captain poeye
Mar 07th, 2013 - 07:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0british WIMPS!
Good luck and solidarity to Cristina in this important battle to give the ordinary citizen fair access to justice and root out the conservative bias, and often sheer crookedness, of the ancien regime judges. Like with Clarin and Repsol I think she'll succeed =) It was a brilliant speech btw, I saw some of it streamed by chance online, she really is so eloquent and charismatic!
Mar 10th, 2013 - 01:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0#9 Well although it doesn't seem to have been reported on mercopress I think she said in the speech she wouldn't change the constitution. I still hope she changes her mind but perhaps I'm being more ultr-Kirchnerist than her =( If she doesn't stand in 2015 (and she may have sacrificed her chance to do that to pick her more important battle with the crooked judges instead), the tone of her speech doesn't suggest to me though that she'd be in favour of winding up the deepening of Argentine democracy and endorsing a conservative like Sciloi; the left shift would hopefully continue under a President Timmerman, Castro, Kiccilof etc (and she could also come back in 2019).
#7, 10 Well indeed she'd be good in those roles, unfortunately the “international community” is still dominated by more pro-corporate political forces who I don't think would let her take up such a leading role (although it would be a natural progression if she leaves the presidency in 2015; Bachelet is currently head of UN women for example, and the General Secretary post is next elected at the end of 2016 I think). She is actually doing her bit for middle east peace with her honourable deal with Iran...
With any luck to the Argentine's, someone will red tag her before her term is up.
Mar 10th, 2013 - 04:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0She is now running trade deficits
30%+ inflation
double digit employment
decreasing to almost none DFI
impending bond default....again
EVERYONE is striking.....go figure when one controls everything
budget deficits
one needs a computer to count the trade complaints
now she wants to steal the judiciary. Why Britain does not just wax their ass and make their shit a little more flaky.....amazes me their tolerance with RGs constant ranting over the Falklands. I'd find a reason to send a Trident up the pink house's ass.
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