President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has affirmed she does not have any favorite presidential candidates for the upcoming elections, and eluded to answer about her future in politics during an interview with RT during her official visit in Russia.
“Kings had favorites… no, no, no, no, no. That -meaning favoritism in presidential succession- was part of monarchic systems. It has no place in democracies,” said Ms Kirchner when asked about who was her favorite candidate for the upcoming presidential elections.
The head of state said she feels “proud” of having been the author of a law to “democratize the political parties system” and stressed the importance of having “open primary elections” to allow citizens to decide their candidates.
“No one believed in the PASO elections, not even my fellow governors. They thought no one was going to vote. Newspapers, radio, television, everyone bet the PASO were going to be a failure. But they turned out to be a total success,” she added.
Making a balance of her presidency, CFK mentioned one of her “debts” was to pass a reform to democratize the judiciary. “It’s something people demand. If you study the polls, people perceive justice does not reach the powerful, they perceive justice is slow… it has many flaws.”
“We wanted to at least allow the people to have a vote in the organism that qualifies judges. This was a reform we tried to put forward, but it didn’t pass. Nevertheless, the reform will be treated sooner or later, because society demands it. Things tend to advance gradually.”
The reform was also resisted by opposition sectors, CFK acknowledged, adding that if she was “president of Disneyland” everyone is going lo like her, but being president of Argentina “is something completely different.”
Asked about what are her plans for when she leaves the presidency in December, Cristina Kirchner laughed and jokingly asked the interviewer if he was trying to send her home to take care of her grandkids.
“Being president is not important; is what you did as president that is important. It’s what you did in life what’s most important, not the position you occupied,” she said.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald