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Weekly Report - 3 March 2011 (WR-11-09)
ARGENTINA: Fernández presents state-of-the-nation address
Argentina began this week with rumours of an “eternal Cristina",
triggered by a comment made by national deputy Diana Conti to a local radio
station in Rosario, Santa Fe. “The ultra-K sectors to which I belong wish for a
constitutional reform, because we wish for an eternal [President] Cristina
[Fernández]", Conti said on 28 February. However, during her annual
state-of-the-nation address, formally opening the 2011 congressional session on
1 March, President Fernández unequivocally denied having any such intentions
(see sidebar) and questioned the widely held assumption that she will
be a presidential candidate in the upcoming 23 October general election;
nonetheless, her speech did have a strong electoral overtone.
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