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CFK insists that Alberto Fernández's was not “her” government

After Dec. 10, the former president said she would remain in politics

Argentine Vice President and former two-time President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) insisted Sunday when voting in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz that the current administration of Alberto Fernández, which ends on December 10, was not “her” government because “I do not decide policies,” as her differences with the incumbent head of state are also well known.

“My government of 2015? They will remember it wonderfully because we won in the first round in 2019. Now, my role as vice president is to preside over the Senate and nothing more. I do not make policy,” she told reporters after casting her vote.

“The differences we had because of officials who do not work have already been made public; already in 2020 it was necessary to adjust policies, prices, salaries, pensions, and I was not listened to. In a 'presidentialistic' country like this, it is clear that the one who always decides is the president, for better or for worse”.

CFK also emphasized that “common sense” will be needed to reach an agreement for the country “in which all those who have responsibilities of any kind, be they institutional, union, economic, social...” agree on some basic issues, given the “debt to the [International Monetary Fund] IMF” and “the big problems that it causes.”

Argentina will need “great agreements to see how we can get out of the mess that means having a debt that imposes an inflationary policy on us,” she continued.

As for her future life after Dec. 10, she said she would remain in politics. “I finished my presidency in 2015 and I didn't want any privileges and I don't want them now. Let's not get used to thinking that you can only do politics with a position, much less in Peronism.”

Before heading to the polling station, Fernández called the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo to congratulate President Estela de Carlotto on her 93rd birthday, which was broadcast on CFK's social media.

Pursuant to Law 26.001 of Dec. 16, 2004, October 22 is the National Day of the Right to Identity, in honor of the creation of the Asociación Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo Association) in 1977.