Tag: Elisa Carrio

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2017 - 09:18 UTC

  Carrió denies any misunderstandings with the government of president Macri

  

  The chair of the Argentina's Lower House foreign affairs committee, Elisa Carrió said she maintains an “excellent relation” with the national government and warned she does not wish to be involved in “any sort of internal dispute”.

• Thursday, November 17th 2016 - 08:36 UTC

  Malcorra taunted in Congress over the UK/Argentina statement and South Atlantic chapter

  

  A leading ally of President Mauricio Macri's precarious coalition in Congress and chair of the Lower House Foreign Affairs committee, held another special session to address the September UK/Argentina Joint Statement, which she argues is not an “accord or treaty”, but nevertheless strongly questions the South Atlantic chapter which calls for lifting economic sanctions on Falklands' trade, fisheries, connectivity and oil development.

• Wednesday, November 16th 2016 - 10:01 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez furious with Macri for the accusations against her mother

  

  Argentine ex president Cristina Fernandez strongly defended her mother Ofelia Wilhelm who has been accused by the federal justice of fraud and pointed to president Mauricio Macri for the official investigation warning that “no matter how many cases are dumped on me, the fact is people don't make enough money to reach the end of the month”.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2016 - 06:27 UTC

  Argentine congress will be part of the Argentina/UK joint statement discussions

  

  The chair of Argentina's Lower House Foreign Affairs Committee Elisa Carrió has supported president Mauricio Macri's “nonnegotiable” stance on the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute and attributed the Argentina/UK joint statement controversy to “minor questions of communication”, nevertheless she summoned deputy foreign minister Carlos Foradori to Congress next Wednesday.

• Tuesday, September 20th 2016 - 09:21 UTC

  Congress expects to summon Malcorra on the Argentine/UK joint statement

  

  The recent Argentina/UK joint statement on cooperation on an ample range of fields with a special chapter on the South Atlantic has triggered strong reactions in Argentina's political establishment and will most probably summon foreign minister Susana Malcorra to Congress to explain the extent of the document announced last 13 September.

• Wednesday, March 2nd 2016 - 07:15 UTC

  Macri in an hour long speech blasts his predecessor and in the other half tries to inject optimism

  

  In a one hour speech before the Argentine congress, president Mauricio Macri spent half the time describing the country he received and in the other half made some announcements, but above all tried to transmit optimism, willingness to overcome, and insisted in the three pillars of his electoral pledge, eliminating poverty, combating drug-trafficking and unity among all Argentines.

• Monday, June 8th 2015 - 07:49 UTC

  Francis receives Cristina Fernandez, but is criticized for mingling in Argentine politics

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez was received on Sunday in the Vatican by Pope Francis for an encounter that lasted almost two hours, in the fifth meeting between the pontiff and head of state since the ex-Buenos Aires archbishop was elected to the Holy See. The meeting however was not without criticism from Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, May 6th 2015 - 06:42 UTC

  Argentine S. Court ratifies Chief Justice; Cristina Fernandez wants to impeach a second Justice

  

  In another chapter of the ongoing dispute between Argentine president Cristina Fernández and a non-submissive Judiciary, the country's Supreme Court issued a statement on Tuesday ratifying Ricardo Lorenzetti as Chief Justice for three more years starting in 2016, following versions that he was pushing to leave the SC on yet unclear “moral fatigue” grounds.

• Thursday, February 26th 2015 - 05:26 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez will complete her mandate, 'despite wanting to be kicked out'

  

  Former Uruguayan President Jorge Batlle said that Argentine President Cristina Fernandez “wants to be kicked out of government”, replicating Argentine opposition comments.

• Wednesday, April 23rd 2014 - 04:58 UTC

  A centre-left broad front is born in Argentina as “a government alternative”

  

  The leaders of various Argentine centre-left and radical parties signed on Tuesday evening the document which marks the official birth of the Broad Front UNEN, the electoral coalition which aims to provide a non-Peronist alternative at the 2015 presidential vote.