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Argentina's first lady
claims victory in
presidential elections
Argentina's first lady
Cristina Fernandez late
Sunday claimed victory
in presidential
elections, with early
exit polls showing she
had won by a large
margin.
Fernandez, often called
the new Evita or
Argentina's Hillary
Clinton, is the first of
the famous first ladies
to won the presidential
election and the first
elected woman president
in the country's
history.
Fernandez is often
compared to Eva "Evita"
Peron, wife of former
President Juan Peron in
the mid-20th century and
became an icon of the
times.
But Fernandez may have
more in common with
Clinton: both are
lawyers and senators and
married to former
governors who became
presidents. The
difference is that
Fernandez has won the
presidential election,
while Clinton is
campaigning for the
Democratic candidate for
next year's U.S.
presidential election.
Fernandez, 54, a mother
of two, loved political
debate in her teenage
and studied law. She met
Nestor Kirchner in law
school and the two later
got married. Since then
they formed a tight
political partnership.
She has served in
provincial and national
legislatures and became
a senator. As a senator,
she was better known
than her husband and was
believed to have a
strong influence on her
husband after he took
presidency in 2003.
Some analysts attributed
Fernandez's victory to
her husband, whose
government was credited
with pulling the
nation's economy out of
the 2001-02 crisis.
Nominated by her husband
as a presidential
candidate, Fernandez
said in her campaign
that she would run on
her husband's policy,
strive for steady
economic growth, narrow
the gap between the rich
and the poor to realize
social equity.
Some critics said that
her heavy make-up and
expensive clothes
sometimes attract more
attention than her
policies, but Fernandez
said she just likes to
"cake on the makeup."
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Argentina's first lady and presidential
candidate senator Cristina Fernandez de
Kirchner casts her vote at a polling
station in Rio Gallegos, Argentina, Oct.
28 2007. |
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