Tag: CFK

• Monday, June 24th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentina lines up for the August primaries; three leading presidential tickets

  

  Months of intense political negotiations and last minute nerve breaking deals came to an end in Argentina on Sunday's zero hour deadline, when the different political groupings had to present to electoral authorities their list of presidential hopefuls, as well as future lawmakers.

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• Wednesday, June 19th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Argentine political scenario prepares for the October presidential election

  

  Argentine politician Sergio Massa, who recently pledged his support to the main opposition challengers to President Mauricio Macri, is in line to play a key role in the country's Congress if his new allies win national elections later this year.

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• Thursday, June 13th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  
Argentine ex official sentenced to six years in prison for corruption

  

  A court on Wednesday sentenced former Argentine secretary of Public Works minister Jose Lopez to six years in prison after he was caught by police trying to hide bags stuffed with US$9 million in cash at a Buenos Aires convent.

• Saturday, June 8th 2019 - 22:19 UTC

  Argentina: Overprices of up to 90% in sales to Venezuela detected

  

  Inconsistencies were found in binational businesses for overpricing and irregular billing for more than 20,000 million dollars between Venezuela and Argentina. According to a report from the General Syndicature of the Nation (Sigen), which was accessed by the newspaper La Nación, between 2012 and 2016 at least 15 Argentine companies would be involved in the escrow between the two countries.

• Tuesday, May 28th 2019 - 10:00 UTC

  Polls: Fernández-Fernández headed for a first-round win in Argentina's presidential elections

  

  Barely a week after the Alberto Fernández-Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) ticket for the upcoming presidential elections in Argentina was announced, the unexpected Peronist-Kirchnerist pairing is over ten points ahead of incumbent President Mauricio Macri and whomever he picks as his running mate, according to two polls sponsored by the center-left Página 12 newspaper, it was reported.

• Saturday, May 25th 2019 - 08:20 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez releases compilation of her foreign policy speeches

  

  Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Friday released a new book - Una Política Exterior Soberana - (A Sovereign Foreign Policy), a compilation of her most emblematic speeches on the international arena during her eight years at the helm of the Casa Rosada.

• Monday, May 20th 2019 - 10:33 UTC

  “The first time a vice president candidate names her presidential candidate”

  

  “It's the first time I've seen an aspiring vice-presidential candidate name here choice to head the presidential ticket”, said rather ironically Jaime Durán Barba, the main political advisor of Argentine president Mauricio Macri in reference to the surprise announcement of the Alberto Fernandez-Cristina Fernandez ticket for the coming October election.

• Saturday, May 18th 2019 - 13:45 UTC

  CFK to be Number 2 in Fernández-Fernández ticket for Argentina's presidency

  

  Former Argentine two-time President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) rattled an otherwise quiet Saturday morning by announcing she would run for the country's vice-presidency in this year's elections behind her former Cabinet Chief Alberto Fernández.

• Wednesday, April 24th 2019 - 09:16 UTC

  “Sincerely”, Cristina Fernandez book of anecdotes to be launched on Friday

  

  Two times Argentine president Cristina Fernandez is launching a book next Friday, a collection of personal anecdotes and momentous experiences of her political life, anticipation of its official presentation in the Buenos Aires Book Fair on 9 May.

• Tuesday, February 26th 2019 - 10:51 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez in court refuses to answer questions and claims she is a victim of political persecution

  

  Argentina's former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner appeared in court on Monday for the third time in relation to the “corruption notebooks” scandal in which she is accused of accepting millions of dollars' worth of bribes.