Fernandez dissociates the Government's defeat and calls for consensus
Fernandez, who had remained silent about the varapaloelectoral by the ruling party suffered in Sunday's elections, convened a press conference today, the second since it began her presidency in December 2007 to quell the insistent rumoressobre resignations in the government, encouraged by the resignation of President Kirchnercomo Justicialista Party (PJ, Peronist). I do not see the outcome of the elections have to change haceralgun Cabinet do not see it written anywhere nor veoque there was no attitude on the part of some minister nialguna policy that has been lost in the cause of deBuenos Aires province, said the president. The only resignation that has taken place in the Cabinet, and not as a consequence of the election results, has been to laministra Health, Graciela Ocana, who resigned today by malmanejo of the dengue epidemic that hit the country earlier mesesy progress of influenza A, which has claimed 28 lives . In his appearance before the media, Fernandez, as did anocheKirchner, her husband and predecessor in office, downplayed the impact dela defeat the government and admitted that the new composition delParlamento require an exercise of consensus to ensure lagobernabilidad. The president attributed the fall in support of the ruling aldesgaste six years of management, from Kirchner's victory in 2003, and errors to be analyzed, but no gave no pistasobre a possible change of government in its strategy to restore confidence of the electorate. The new political map, with the loss of mayoriaparlamentaria the ruling will require, from all deoficialistas and opponents, an exercise in consensus agreement, to achieve good governance, he said, although he warned that negotiation is not abandoning the principles . According to the latest data, the ruling party won 5.9 million devotees (31 percent of the cast), the Civic Coalition, with the Union Civica Radical and the Socialists, 5.5 million (29 percent), and conservative Republican Proposal (PRO), led porel head of government of the city of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri, 3.5 million (18.5 percent). (more…)