Sunday, 13 May 2012

Argentina - Scioli admits having 'presidential hopes' for 2015

Buenos Aires province Governor Daniel Scioli assured today that he has presidential hopes for 2015, but clarified that he will not face President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner if she decides to run for re-reelection.

"When there is speculation regarding my political future I do not consider myself a hypocrite. I have presidential hopes for 2015, but right now we must administrate and support the President.”

Regarding the possibility of a Government-sponsored constitutional reform in order to allow re-reelection, Scioli assured he would support it, “as I have done so far.”

“There is no way I will face the President in the 2015 elections,” Scioli stressed and assured that does not need to his prove loyalty, amid the the dispute he holds with Gabriel Mariotto supporters.

“I do not need to prove my loyalty because time and time again I have shown my support in difficult times,” the former Vice-president added.

Scioli’s comments took place following a request of official propaganda request by a group of Kirchnerite senators, which sparked a verbal war of words between provincial Government Minister Cristina Alvarez Rodríguez and and pro-Mariotto legislators.

Scioli sidestepped the argument, but praised former Vice-governor Alberto Balestrini, who left the post after suffering a stroke. “We co-existed and complimented each other very well. We learnt to know each other during hard times and in the suffering of facing problems together. That is what should happen when two men have the confidence of gathering 50 percent of votes, as we did in 2007.”

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