The party is over. (Trade Talk).A fight between Argentine President Eduardo Duhalde Eduardo Alberto Duhalde Maldonado (born October 5, 1941) is a former president of Argentina. Duhalde was born in Lomas de Zamora, in the Greater Buenos Aires. He graduated as a lawyer in 1970. and former President Carlos Menem Carlos Saúl Menem (born July 2, 1930) was President of Argentina from July 8, 1989 to December 10, 1999 for the Justicialist Party (Peronist) very infamous and criticized due corruption and his dubious handling of the investigations of the 1992 Israeli Embassy bombing and the 1994 , both members of the Partido Justicialista (PJ), has divided the country's largest and most dominant political party. Longtime rivals, Duhalde opposed the candidacy of the former president and feared he would sweep primary elections to become the PJ's candidate. Argentine courts ruled there was not sufficient time to conduct a primary, leaving Menem to run against his fellow party members in the April 27 elections. "Peron's legacy was not respected." Former Argentine President Carlos Menem (Clarin) "To spare Argentina's only strong party from a similar outcome to what happened to the Radicals is very important." Argentine President Eduardo Duhalde (Financial Times) "Evidently, the government's intent is to not let the primary vote go ahead because they realize that Menem will almost surely win it." Alberto Kohan, a Menem adviser (AP) "There's no room for a fundamentalist adventure or a messianic mes·si·an·ic also Mes·si·an·ic adj. 1. Of or relating to a messiah: messianic hopes. 2. Of or characterized by messianism: messianic nationalism. leadership that would supposedly grant Argentina fortitude Fortitude See also Bravery. Fratricide (See MURDER.) Asia despite torture, refuses to deny Moses. [Islam: Walsh Classical, 35] Calantha fulfills wifely and queenly duties despite losses. [Br. Lit. ." PJ presidential candidate Nestor Kirchner (MercoPress) "The [PJ] party has been split." Ruben Mann, party member (La Nacion) "We're going to win even if the provisional dictator [Duhalde] says the opposite." Menem (El Nuevo Herald El Nuevo Herald is a McClatchy newspaper published daily in Spanish in Miami, Florida, in the United States. The Herald's sister paper is The Miami Herald, also produced by the McClatchy Company. ) "This is a very risky strategy." Political commentator Horacio Verbitsky Horacio Verbitksy (born 1942 in Buenos Aires) is a prominent Argentine investigative journalist and author. He writes for the left-leaning Argentine newspaper Página/12 and heads up the Centre for Legal and Social Studies (CELS), a human-rights organisation. (The Washington Post) |
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