Tag: Amado Boudou

• Tuesday, October 29th 2013 - 16:25 UTC

  More Kirchnerism from less votes; Election result won’t bring change of direction

  

  By Rosendo Fraga (*) - On presidential instructions, the ruling party headed by Acting President Amado Boudou and Buenos Aires Governor Daniel Scioli endeavored to transform Sunday night’s midterm election defeat into a result living up to the Victory Front’s name.

• Monday, October 28th 2013 - 20:51 UTC

  “Mother is recovering and improving” said Maximo, son of Cristina Fernandez

  

  Maximo Kirchner, the eldest son of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez said his mother's medical condition was 'improving' from the cranium surgery to drain a blood clot to which she saw submitted at the beginning of the month, but did not advance any date as to when the head of state will return to her job.

• Monday, October 28th 2013 - 05:37 UTC

  Argentine government retains congress; Massa and Macri confirm 2015 presidential ambition

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez's governing bloc held onto control of Congress in Sunday's mid-term elections, but the results also confirmed the emergence of a new group of powerful leaders who with different messages (and non-messages) anticipated on that same night that their target it the presidential chair in 2015.

• Wednesday, October 23rd 2013 - 04:01 UTC

  Lady Cristina is out of combat but on Sunday's election could reap more than anticipated

  

  With less than four days for Sunday’s midterm elections in Argentina, Buenos Aires province Governor Daniel Scioli called on “undecided” and independent voters to cast their ballot for President Cristina Fernandez Victory Front (FpV) top candidate Martín Insaurralde “in favor of the province and the country.”

• Thursday, October 10th 2013 - 05:24 UTC

  Government is run by a solid team following Cristina Fernandez instructions’

  

  Argentine Cabinet Chief Juan Manuel Abal Medina guaranteed there will be no political or institutional crisis due to President Cristina Fernández health condition and underlined that ‘the president’s team is solid and working with no difficulty”, following her instructions.

• Thursday, October 10th 2013 - 01:01 UTC

  As Cristina Fernandez evolves favourably, debate targets acting-president Boudou

  

  While Argentine presidential spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro confirmed that President Cristina Fernández “evolves favourably” and is “in good spirits”, the political debate on Wednesday has centred on Vice-president and acting president Amado Boudou whom the opposition argue should not lead the country given his questionable credentials and mounting legal problems

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 17:24 UTC

  Zanini, admirer of Mao’s China, the strongman in absence of Cristina Fernandez

  

  His nickname is ‘El chino’ (the Chinese) because of his strong Maoist tendencies when a law student. Long a solicitor, Carlos Zanini is Argentine president Cristina Fernandez (and of her deceased husband Nestor Kirchner) most trusted aide and top of the Kirchnerite ‘nomenclature’.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 05:54 UTC

  Boudou riding a Harley Davidson in Brasilia while Cristina faced serious medical condition

  

  “While Cristina has to step down, he’s riding a motorbike” printed in the front page one of Brazil’s leading newspapers O Estado de Sao Paulo that caught Argentine Vice-president and now acting president a few hours before he was called back to Buenos Aires because of Cristina Fernandez medical condition.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 05:49 UTC

  Boudou: “The worst negative image of the Cristina Fernandez administration”

  

  Vice-president and caretaker president Amado Boudou has “the worst negative image” of the Argentine government, according to a leading pollster in Buenos Aires. Mariel Fornoni from Management & Fit made the statement only hours before Boudou, and according to Article 88 of the Constitution, signed as acting president for thirty days during the medical absence of Cristina Fernandez.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 05:43 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez undergoes surgery to remove clot; doctors consider operation ‘low-risk’

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez (60) will undergo surgery on Tuesday morning to remove an accumulation of blood in her skull (subdural haematoma) following a blow in early August, according to a statement issued by the hospital where she is being treated.