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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).

When a result is not the one who thought of her time debetener attitudes to it, said Nestor Kirchner ina statement exclusively to the official Telam anunciarsu waiver for unswerving PJ's presidency, a post queejercia since May 2008.

Kirchner lost by 2.5 points in the province of Buenos Aires, a traditional Peronist stronghold against their closest rival, Francisco de Narvaez elempresario, allied with dissident Peronist laderecha.

His replacement in the address of PJ, the governor of Buenos Aires laprovincia, Daniel Scioli, vicepresidenteprimero party until today, faces the difficult task of reunifying elperonismo and strengthen its leadership if, as it appears, wants to compete for the presidency in 2011.

At the moment, has announced its intention to convene a meeting with governors and official winner of the great lajornada the employer de Narvaez, who rushed to pedircambios today in the government and hoped that the president read well the result of the election.

For Elisa Carrio, the leader of the Civic Coalition, consolidadacomo second largest country, Argentina entered a new etapaporque Nestor Kirchner no more, just of morirpoliticamente.

Beyond the personal and the struggle for carrerapresidencial, the results of Sunday, complicated, and much, because the Argentine mapapolitico, recalled today as the analyst RosendoFraga the previous experiences of minority governments in fuerontraumaticas: Ricardo Alfonsin at the end of his mandate, and Fernando De la Rua, in his two years of Government. EFE

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