Tag: La Campora

• Tuesday, July 21st 2015 - 05:24 UTC

  Maximo Kirchner and Macri clash over Sunday's election in Buenos Aires

  

  Cristina Fernandez son, Maximo Kirchner, lawmaker candidate for the Victory Front took time on Monday to comment on presidential hopeful Mauricio Macri’s Sunday speech, after his candidate Horacio Rodriguez Larreta won in the Buenos Aires City’s runoff by a much closer margin than expected.

• Tuesday, July 14th 2015 - 05:29 UTC

  Barrage of accusations following a Judge's order to raid Maximo Kirchner's real estate agency

  

  The raid ordered by an Argentine Federal Judge at a real estate agency which belongs to president Cristina Fernandez' son, Maximo Kirchner's in Rio Gallegos, triggered a barrage of accusations from government officials, just a few days ahead of decisive primaries in August, in anticipation of the October presidential elections.

• Saturday, July 4th 2015 - 06:48 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez congratulates La Campora victory in Ushuaia

  

  President Cristina Fernandez publicly congratulated on Friday Walter Vuoto the young elected mayor of Ushuaia, capital of Argentina's most austral province, who together with elected governor Rosana Bertone recovered Tierra del Fuego for the ruling Victory Front, a surprise victory which turns that territory and capital in Kirchnerite strongholds.

• Monday, June 22nd 2015 - 07:35 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez ensuring continuity for Kirchner's 'development 'project'

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez will not run for any office in this year's general elections, but she has set up supporters in key candidacies for the primaries in which 13 presidential hopefuls are participating. These include her two closest advisors since the death of her husband Nestor Kirchner and they are, son Maximo Kirchner, and Carlos Zannini, the Legal and Technical Secretary of the Executive.

• Wednesday, June 17th 2015 - 05:56 UTC

  Presidential hopeful Scioli names Cristina Fernandez confident as his running mate

  

  Argentine presidential hopeful and Buenos Aires province governor Daniel Scioli announced he will run for president with Carlos Zannini, the current Legal and Technical Presidential secretary and one of the closest advisors of President Cristina Fernandez, completing the ticket.

• 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.

• Wednesday, April 15th 2015 - 08:43 UTC

  Maximo Kirchner 'ripe' to run for an elected post, says Argentine cabinet chief

  

  Argentina's cabinet chief Anibal Fernandez said on Tuesday he was convinced that Maximo Kirchner, the son of president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, would run for an elected post representing the province of Buenos Aires in the coming general elections of next October.

• Wednesday, March 25th 2015 - 06:53 UTC

  Pro and against Kirchner rallies on 29th anniversary of 1976 military coup

  

  Human rights, political and social organizations commemorated on Tuesday 24 March the 29th anniversary of the military dictatorship that killed anywhere from 9.000 to 30,000 people, marking the beginning of one the darkest period in Argentina's modern history.

• Thursday, February 26th 2015 - 22:15 UTC

  Argentine cabinet reshuffle: Anibal Fernandez becomes chief of staff

  

  Argentina named the president's chief of staff, Anibal Fernandez, as the new Cabinet chief on Thursday in a reshuffle that comes as the government faces a political crisis. Fernandez, a close political ally of President Cristina Fernandez, who is no relation, will replace Jorge Capitanich, the presidency said.

• Thursday, January 15th 2015 - 05:42 UTC

  Argentine government bluntly rejects 'Iran cover up' accusation as 'nonsense'

  

  Argentina's Presidency Secretary General Anibal Fernandez bluntly rejected the accusations by the prosecutor in the AMIA bombing probe against president Cristina Fernández, foreign minister Hector Timerman and other Kirchnerite officials for allegedly “covering up” Iranian citizens in the investigation.