President fernandez celebrates her victory in argentina
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has won re-election in Argentina, according to the National Electoral Interior Ministry. Nearly 54% of the 28 million voters supported the Alliance Front for Victory leader against Hermes Binner, the Broad Front Progressive Alliance’s candidate for President.
In her victory speech at the Intercontinental Hotel in Buenos Aires, the leader promised to build more hospitals, schools and roads. She also paid tribute to her late husband, President Nestor Kirchner, who died in October 2010 – reportedly of a heart attack.
South American nations, Spain, France and the United States have all sent their congratulations to President Fernández.
In This Story: Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country located mostly in the southern half of South America. Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, the country is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south.
With a mainland area of 2,780,400 km2 (1,073,500 sq mi), Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world, the fourth largest in the Americas, the second largest in South America after Brazil, and the largest Spanish-speaking nation by area.
Argentina claims sovereignty over part of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
