Hush now Argentina, don't you cry.
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Monday December 10, 2007 22:34
by seņora donzella morales chavez - 4 terms for 2 club
Something quite extraordinary has happened in Argentina. & to appreciate it, all you really have to do is wonder how many spouses see each other serve in the highest office of their land. Hilary obviously pops to mind, but the you get the absolutely extraordinary nature of the new Argentinian presidency - for not only is it legitimatised by one of the highest electoral margins in democratic history - there was no need for two terms of a Bush type (or to be completely up-to-oligarchy style) the son or daughter of a rival.
Yep - admit it you political experts & know-alls are hard put to remember any other state where a president has served his constitutional limitations then handed the sash & baton to his wife. Or indeed the other way round.
Socialism is great. We'll stop the oligarchy yet.
Presidenta & former first lady (the grammar & style & protocol are officialised)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina_Fern%C3%A1ndez_de...chner
former President & current first gentleman (the first one Argentina has ever had as it happens)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9stor_Kirchner
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