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Cristina Fernandez prepared to run for Congress to put a break to Macri's policies
Argentine ex president Cristina Fernandez said on Thursday she is open to the possibility of running for a seat in Congress in the October midterm elections, since she considers essential to put a stop to the policies implemented by her successor, president Mauricio Macri. Read full article
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May 26th, 2017 - 11:53 am - Link - Report abuse -7https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HW522P5XW58
The whole catastrophe
May 26th, 2017 - 12:53 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Go for it Cristina!
May 26th, 2017 - 01:00 pm - Link - Report abuse -6Is there a better candidate with better chances? The FpV won't be much of a party if it can't succeed without the people who started it.
May 26th, 2017 - 01:12 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Also I didn't know her party has been supporting some of Macri's bills, does anyone know which ones?
The real reason that Peronists run for office in Argentina is that they can't be sent to prison while holding a seat in the congress.
May 26th, 2017 - 03:23 pm - Link - Report abuse +8In the mean time..., Yankee leader uses body language to tell us all...:
May 26th, 2017 - 07:06 pm - Link - Report abuse -3AMERICA FIRST...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTOlNDMTvg
Cristina, the propsperous.
May 26th, 2017 - 07:49 pm - Link - Report abuse -3Like Marcus
Aurelius!
So, Think has nothing with any substance to say... just ideological cheerleading.
May 26th, 2017 - 08:01 pm - Link - Report abuse +4Same for Enrique 'Gusano'.
Maduro is just a misunderstood Socialist too. Right, boys???
The beer said: aurelioamado1
May 26th, 2017 - 08:07 pm - Link - Report abuse -4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3gq8hedjxw&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A&index=44
kkk
Anti-conviction strategy perhaps?
May 26th, 2017 - 09:59 pm - Link - Report abuse +3Briton? What happening?
May 27th, 2017 - 12:27 am - Link - Report abuse -3Australia will return Italia to China within 24 years.
May 27th, 2017 - 01:28 am - Link - Report abuse +2(miss the usual hepatitis comment :) )
Headline should read: 'Crocked former Argentine President tries to avoid prison by standing for office.'
May 27th, 2017 - 10:27 am - Link - Report abuse +6The prime minister was forced to perform a major U-turn this week after her plan to introduce a tax on care for the elderly -- dubbed a “dementia tax” -- drew an angry response from the public.
May 27th, 2017 - 11:55 am - Link - Report abuse -3The British economy is also showing signs of weakness following the Brexit vote. Real wages are declining, prices are rising and consumer spending is slowing. (British may drink 28% less wine because of rising wine prices keeping this luxury out of reach)
In the first three months of the year, Britain's economy grew by just 0.2% over the previous quarter. In Europe, that puts the U.K. alongside Italy and better only than Greece.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/26/investing/uk-brexit-pound-election-yougov-poll/
Looking great...
@AustrOllOpithecus
May 27th, 2017 - 12:21 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Perhaps Cristina Fernandez should run for parliament to put a stop to May's policies?
Toby
May 27th, 2017 - 12:40 pm - Link - Report abuse +5You've accidentally posted on the wrong story. This thread is about your former, corrupt president trying to avoid prison by finding sanctuary within the political system.
Stories about PM May's incompetence can be found on several sites but not here.
Just got this picture via Pipper...
May 27th, 2017 - 02:09 pm - Link - Report abuse -5A random Buenos Aires Pizzeria full of people watching the telly...
But it ain't the Football World Cup Final they are so devoutly watching ...;-)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAuU4NpXkAIi7pD.jpg
@Think
May 27th, 2017 - 03:05 pm - Link - Report abuse -5Impressive photo!
I knew Cristina's 76-minute interview had record viewing numbers, but this picture says it better than numbers.
It's got to be said: Current president Mauricio Macri could have easily relegated Cristina to the past.
Instead, his aggressiveness against workers and the domestic economy has made Argentine citizens realize the extent of the scam that Cambiemos has been inflicting to the country, bringing Cristina again to the forefront.
Among other points she made during her interview, Cristina pointed to the foreign debt increase ($77 billion US between Dec. 2015 and Feb. 2017), which makes one's heart sink especially in light of painful memories of the recent past, re the military dictatorship debt increase in the 1970s and the 2001 default.
Macri has not used the currency to build infrastructure but to finance capital flight and lucrative financial speculation, as government-issued bonds pay high interest rates.
Time for Argentina to go back to a more honest system that promotes the domestic sector on a sustainable basis.
“ Argentina to go back to a more honest system ”, is this the Argentina in Latin America, because it is not the Argentina I know. “ Honest system ” HaHaHa PMSL
May 27th, 2017 - 03:18 pm - Link - Report abuse +3”Just got this picture via Pipper...
May 27th, 2017 - 05:57 pm - Link - Report abuse +3A random Buenos Aires Pizzeria full of people watching the telly...
But it ain't the Football World Cup Final they are so devoutly watching ...;-)“
A really spontaneous organized rally. I'm pretty sure everybody went out of their way to watch that ”interview” simulation.
Yes, that's right. I stopped getting whatsapps during that hour and a half. The streets were deserted in city because Cristina was talking.
Right?
Well. Nope. I guess neither Think or Enrique live in the city.
Volveeeeeeeeeeeeer........
May 27th, 2017 - 08:27 pm - Link - Report abuse -5https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4ssGSZS2_2s
Return? To what exactly? Zurdistan?
May 27th, 2017 - 11:35 pm - Link - Report abuse +5LMAO!!
“....Argentina to go back to a more honest system...”
May 28th, 2017 - 02:42 am - Link - Report abuse +2I laughed so hard that the Fanta came out of my nose.
There is neither an understanding of the concept, nor a word for “honest” - in all of Argentina.
Dear Marti:
May 28th, 2017 - 02:47 am - Link - Report abuse +5Not that I consider Cristina an option at all. However, what you claim is just valid for the entire world. Find me a totally honest political system and I will gladly replace your Fanta for Dom Perignon.
@TF
May 28th, 2017 - 05:01 am - Link - Report abuse +4Now that really is the truth... ;)
TF and IM, the article is about a system as in “ honest system ” not calling the politicians dishonest, but they maybe.The system is poor, why if in power you cannot be prosecuted, no wonder every Tom, Dick and Harry want to put their nose in the trough and not be charged with a crime. If suspected of a crime one should be investigated and if found guilty sent to jail. If that does not happen then of course people are not deterred to take up office if they know they have immunity.
May 28th, 2017 - 08:03 am - Link - Report abuse +4But as I have have said before here for many months, CFK's protegé is called Donald TrumpL He is her #1 idolee:
May 28th, 2017 - 11:56 am - Link - Report abuse -5After first making the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Germany and Japan wait for a group photo Saturday in the hilltop town, according to The Times of London, Trump moved front and center for the picture.
After first making the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Germany and Japan wait for a group photo Saturday in the hilltop town, according to The Times of London, Trump moved front and center for the picture.
The rest of the group then wound their way about a quarter of a mile to a piazza past small crowds and media. Trump, however, reportedly waited for the electric cart to deliver him to the site. He finally disembarked to join the other leaders for the final walk to the G7 summit venue in a former monastery, now the San Domenico hotel”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/apos-step-apos-trump-takes-035047655.html
CFK was so ahead of her time... Visionary even in bombing G-xx photo shoots :)
TWIMC
May 28th, 2017 - 03:24 pm - Link - Report abuse -5With me own party (PS) in complete political disarray..., I'm happy that Mme. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is openly declaring that she's doing the utmost to unite the different Peronist fractions to change Mr. Macri's catastrophic course...
Seems to be that..., in October..., I will be voting Peronist for the second time in me life...
Well I guess you are just leaving Guatemala and heading for Guatepeor.
May 28th, 2017 - 04:07 pm - Link - Report abuse +6@AustrOllOpithecus
May 28th, 2017 - 04:19 pm - Link - Report abuse +3Bloody G7, I wanted to visit Taormina last week and it was all closed off and crawling with police getting ready for them. :(
But Trump is over 70 and under a lot of stress (hah), he's probably just not up to walking anymore.
@Think
Implying that you didn't vote for your beloved CFK as president? I'm shocked.
Didn't the PS endorse Margarita Stolbizer in the last presidential elections, the same Margarita Stolbizer who then wrote a book accusing CFK of corruption? Those accusations you have said you believe are all lies? I guess that must be quite disillusioning.
“unite ....Peronist fractions [sic] ....”
May 28th, 2017 - 04:25 pm - Link - Report abuse +5The Peroncho factions that have a long history of literally murdering one another. That is just what we need here right now. Let the Peronchos unite in their traditional fratricide, and leave the decent folk alone.
“uniting Peronist factions” is a lot like “marshalling the mafioso” or “corralling the conspicuously corrupt.”
All those little recent steps like getting the bond rating agencies to bump up argie junk bonds by a rank or two..... (did the S&P really give Argentina a “B”?) --- no matter, soon to be headed back to “junk in default.”
Remember in the 1950s when Borges lamented that Peronism had made Argentina look ridiculous to the world? Peronism continues to make Argentina look not just forever ridiculous to the world, but also endlessly incompetent, incorrigibly corrupt, criminally populist, intellectually impoverished, and unfailingly delirious. Referring to Argentina as merely ridiculous is the apex of charity.
Cristina doesn't really want to stand for President but she will “ just for the people ”. Where Oh where do these people get their egos from? The “ will of the people ” I would suggest that she hasn't creamed enough money out of the “ honest system ” in Argentina and of course she will not face prosecution if in office. When will an “ honest Argentinian ” look at the constitution and change it and not give immunity if in government? If I were Argentinian I would like to know whether or not my politicians were “ bent ”.
May 29th, 2017 - 08:16 am - Link - Report abuse +4golfcronie, Kretina isn't proposing running for president at this point since the next presidential election isn't until 2019. But it's widely acknowledged here that her likely running for a legislative seat is little more than a response to the high probability of her being convicted on a number of criminal charges.
May 29th, 2017 - 01:59 pm - Link - Report abuse +5Cristina is worried about where all the money is going....
May 29th, 2017 - 04:43 pm - Link - Report abuse +5LOL of course she is!
Argentina has had to live with the consequences of electing her before.... so now they will live with the consequences of electing her again! No skin off my prosperity.
If anything she actively makes my country more prosperous when she wields any sort of power.... so Go Cristina Go!
It will be a big relief for the Islanders if that crooked and incompetent harpy gets back in. Argentina will return to being a backwater with no economic or military influence
May 29th, 2017 - 05:46 pm - Link - Report abuse +4“Memory Lane” for any Argie in here with bad memory...
May 29th, 2017 - 07:23 pm - Link - Report abuse -4Mauricio Macri talking about inflation..., some two years ago...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=d6plREhdHxI
Pissed myself laughing....... she ripped her country off.............what is the matter with these folks don't they know what she is like................better go and change my knickers............
May 29th, 2017 - 09:27 pm - Link - Report abuse +4To be fair, the alternative is Macri who has no less corruption scandals and has somehow made inflation and poverty even worse, despite claiming it's so easy to solve.
May 29th, 2017 - 09:46 pm - Link - Report abuse -3@Think
So why didn't you vote for CFK if you think she was the best president in your lifetime?
Because I wanted a better one...
May 29th, 2017 - 10:00 pm - Link - Report abuse -4That's always too much to hope for. Who would be better in your opinion?
May 29th, 2017 - 10:28 pm - Link - Report abuse -2Hermes Binner would have...
May 30th, 2017 - 02:23 am - Link - Report abuse -3Now, think for a second, people. Would you have wondered, a year and a half ago, that Cristina would be talking candidacies now? I did not think so. There are two reasons for this: Firstly, Cristina was never what she was portrayed by the dominant media. On the other hand, Mauricio Macri has shown so much to be a crook, it becomes difficult to hide it.
May 30th, 2017 - 02:25 am - Link - Report abuse -5“Would you have wondered, a year and a half ago, that Cristina would be talking candidacies now”
May 30th, 2017 - 04:02 am - Link - Report abuse +3Good Gawd, Enrique, you are so full of patronizing crap!
You, yourself were heralding her imminent return as Macri's successor.
You have been calling Macri a 'failure' and a “crook” from ten days after taking office.
As to Evita K, she institutionalized the profession of lying by replacing the statisticians of INDEC with paid stooges, to cover up the real poverty, unemployment, and inflation figures of the country under her government!
She used the state media for her partisan messages, and tried to dismantle independent media organizations.
She 'Nationalized' the airline to funnel money to La Campora, and attempted to rewrite history.
She's a thief and a liar, and now she is only desperate to run for Office so she can stay out of jail.
And you blindly support her - says a lot about your own integrity!
@Kanye
May 30th, 2017 - 08:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well I wouldn't get too upset at Kamerad/Komrade Rique. “THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!”
http://i1290.photobucket.com/albums/b521/imoyaro/komradek_zpsdfa71a14-1.jpg
@Think
May 30th, 2017 - 12:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Never heard of him, but he sounds pretty reasonable judging from his Wikipedia page. Shame he didn't stand in the last election instead.
Also lol that you get downvoted for supporting CFK and also downvoted for not supporting her.
@EM
Nope, I though she would most likely wait till 2019 and stand for president again.
Enrique, you are delusional as to think that was not her agenda from day one.People with huge egos tend to think only of promoting their own self worth, you of all people should know that, being one of them, look at me I told you that etc.Grow a pair and face the fact that ALL LATAM countries think the same, cream off the top and throw a few inducements to the plebs, co-one you know I speak the truth.
May 30th, 2017 - 05:11 pm - Link - Report abuse +1@DT
May 30th, 2017 - 06:22 pm - Link - Report abuse -1I agree that Cristina may decide to wait.
However, that's not the point. What counts is the utter failure of the big media groups to make Cristina disappear out of the public view.
@K
“She's a thief and a liar, and now she is only desperate to run for Office so she can stay out of jail.”
This is the sort of crappy information spread by Clarin and multiplied by the different media layers owned by the group...to no avail. People know better who Cristina really is...and if they had any doubts, Mauricio Macri is working hard to make her look better every day!
@Golfcron
You miss the point, body. It's not what Cristina thought, and it's not what I believe but the support Cristina has among the population--especially the voters. By the way, your comment above is kind of incoherent. Try a bit harder to come up with something meaningful...if you can.
@AustrOllOpithecus
May 30th, 2017 - 07:04 pm - Link - Report abuse +1”(British may drink 28% less wine because of rising wine prices keeping this luxury out of reach)”
RUBBISH!! It costs me 25p-50p a bottle to make Elderberry, Blackberry, Damson, Rhubarb, Elderflower, Blackcurrant and a multitude of wines, ALL of which taste FAR better than Malbec, because there are no pesticides in them.
You don't need a vineyard to make wine, just the fine tradition of British homebrewing and wild fruit-sugar-yeast-boiling water-recycled bottles from parties-basic labels-demijohns, airlocks, filtering kit.
Do you really think that all wine has to be imported to the UK?
Why bother going 5 miles to the supermarket?
@EM
May 30th, 2017 - 07:20 pm - Link - Report abuse +2“What counts is the utter failure of the big media groups to make Cristina disappear out of the public view.”
Err, I thought they kept dragging her into the public view in corruption cases in order to distract from what Macri is doing? You can't have it both ways.
@Pete Bog
“Why bother going 5 miles to the supermarket?”
Cause it's way easier than brewing your own and doesn't explode all over your kitchen?
Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......
May 31st, 2017 - 03:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why bother going 5 miles to the supermarket to buy a jar of foie gras d'oie truffé à 5%...?
When it takes under 5 minutes to deepfry a perfecty fine Engrish pork liver...!
Good news! ;)
May 31st, 2017 - 10:00 pm - Link - Report abuse +1http://www.thebubble.com/nismans-accusation-against-cfk-will-now-be-investigated-by-judge-bonadio/
Excellent!
Jun 01st, 2017 - 12:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0It all seems so unfair, doesn't it Enriqueta?
Never mind.
Console yourself that she'll still probably get away with having Nisman murdered to shut him up.
Aaaaaaand the K thugs retaliate...
Jun 01st, 2017 - 05:10 pm - Link - Report abuse +2http://www.thebubble.com/margarita-stolbizers-and-family-were-robbed-after-her-son-was-kidnapped/
@K
Jun 01st, 2017 - 08:59 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Juste Bonadio gets to centralize legal action against CFK.
“Excellent,” jumps Kanye.
No doubt this is good news for those who want to stop Cristina by any necessary means.
Everybody in Argentina knows Bonadio will do anything to convict her if so told by his masters.
The dilemma for Macri, however, is to risk the political costs of jailing her or the risk of Cristina doing well in the October election.
It's really too bad you aren't standing in front of Bonadio yourself , Kamerad/Komrade Rique. I know you have much to answer for, gusano. Fuera “Massot!”
Jun 01st, 2017 - 09:44 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Enrique,
Jun 01st, 2017 - 10:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No need to politicize this development.
Unless you feel it is a foregone conclusion that Evita K is guilty.
The Judiciary feels there is enough evidence to warrant charges.
Put her on trial, and let the chips fall where they may.
Do you think that will result in the public being angry?? Why?
This is her chance to be officially exonerated.
What are you afraid of?
@K
Jun 02nd, 2017 - 03:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh come on Kanye. What planet you live in?
Any idiot knows by now that each time Cristina makes a move or an announcement, members of the judiciary make a move to give front page, large-headlined stories to Clarin and associates.
Of course, if you were not blinded by hate, you would have realized by now that no judge has any hard proof against Cristina--or they would have thrown her in jail a year and a half ago. Judges and prosecutors can start as many actions as they please--even if it looks ridicule, they can do that--another matter is to reach a verdict--for that they need the smoking gun, and they could not even find it even with an army of excavators in Patagonia.
Oh, and by the way: the only thing that makes me afraid, Kanye, is stupidity.
@Imoyaro
One can tell how short of arguments you are, boy. Boring.
EnriQue
Jun 02nd, 2017 - 07:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0Are you saying the Judiciary in Argentina is run by whichever political party is in power?
@K
Jun 03rd, 2017 - 01:22 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Certainly, Macri has many judges who will do as told, and Bonadio is a loyal soldier.
Macri and Co. are so afraid of Cristina's candidacy they don't what they're doing anymore.
Fun to watch.
EM,
Jun 03rd, 2017 - 04:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How do you 'know' the judges will do as they are told by Macri.
That is pointing to them being massively corrupt - without any proof.
Yet, you objected to allegations and charges of corruption and lying against Evita K.
You can't have it both ways... !
At least if CFK is investigated thoroughly, goes to trial, evidence is presented, and a verdict is determined either way, Justice is served.
But you wish to avoid that at all costs.
Perhaps you 'know' she is really guilty?
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