Tag: re-election

• Monday, February 6th 2012 - 07:22 UTC

  Close confident of Cristina Fernandez re-floats idea of a third consecutive mandate

  

  The rumours of a constitutional amendment in Argentina which could include a re-re-election review privileging a possible third consecutive mandate for President Cristina Fernandez have again resurfaced and this time by a close confident of the Kirchner family.

• Thursday, February 2nd 2012 - 23:36 UTC

  Re-re-election rattling: “Cristina Fernandez needs a third term in office”

  

  President Cristina Fernandez would need a third term in office to complete her transformation of Argentina, her vice president said Thursday, feeding her opponents’ fears that the newly re-elected leader will try to change the constitution and stay in power beyond 2015.

• Saturday, January 28th 2012 - 07:26 UTC

  Maximo Kirchner, the ‘favourite son’ with ever growing influence in her mother’s administration

  

  The French newspaper Le Monde dedicated last week ample coverage to the son of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez, Maximo Kirchner, 34, who has a growing influence in her mother’s administration given his double condition as ‘favourite son’ and leader of a youth group La Campora which he founded and is moving full steam ahead.

• Monday, July 25th 2011 - 22:02 UTC

  Chavez confirms he will run for a third six-year term in 2012

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has pledged to run for re-election next year, dismissing speculation that cancer treatment would force him out of the political arena.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 23:22 UTC

  Chavez will run for re-election next year, despite cancer: “there’s no Plan B”

  

  Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez will run for re-election next year despite his struggle with cancer said Finance Minister Jorge Giordani who underlined there’s no Plan B. Giordani’s statement came as the populist leader is in Cuba undergoing chemotherapy and twitted to his compatriots his “insurmountable optimism”.

• Friday, July 15th 2011 - 06:35 UTC

  Paraguayan congress blocks re-election attempt of an ambitious bishop-president

  

  Paraguay's opposition-controlled Congress rejected a constitutional reform that would have let President Fernando Lugo run for re-election. The reform drive, led by Lugo's supporters, proved controversial in a country where many people have painful memories of General Alfredo Stroessner's 35-year dictatorship.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2011 - 22:57 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez plans to launch re-election bid June 23, says close associate

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner may announce her bid to run for re-election at a rally on June 23, according to ruling-party lawmaker and close associate of the head of state, Carlos Kunkel.

• Tuesday, May 17th 2011 - 03:22 UTC

  Argentina makes official October 23 as Election Day

  

  Argentina formally announced Monday dates for the general election that will take place next October 23, when voters will choose President, Vice President, half of the Lower House and Senators from eight of 24 provinces

• Saturday, April 30th 2011 - 10:03 UTC

  Moyano calls for CFK re-election and wants a finger in companies and Congress

  

  Argentina's powerful organized labour leader Hugo Moyano called for President Cristina Fernandez, CFK, to run for re-election but also asked for greater labour participation in the ballot lists, sharing companies’ profits and seats in the boards of the main corporations.

• Monday, April 25th 2011 - 06:59 UTC

  Chavez, with eyes on his 2012 re-election bid, hikes oil windfall tax

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hiked an oil windfall tax in a move that raises government income ahead of the 2012 presidential election, but puts a heavy load on oil companies.