Presidential candidate Hermes Binner replied to Elisa Carrio’s comments and said the Civic Coalition leader “is wrong” when she says the Santa Ge governor seeks to enable President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s indefinite reelection.
Binner denied that he aims to modify the Constitution to support the Head of State’s reelection, like Carrió suggested, but admitted he agrees “to work towards parliamentarism.”
Binner addressed reporters after meeting with former Uruguayan president Tabaré Vázquez. “Carrió is mistaken. She is laying this issue wrong from the start. She is focusing in a parliamentary system, which would enable the possibility of an indefinite reelection, when usually it works the other way round. Usually presidential systems are the ones that enable indefinite reelections,”
“There are many cases of provincial governments that hold indefinite reelections, but there are no cases of parliamentary systems with indefinite reelections. Thus I would say that the Dr Carrió is mistaken,” Binner said.
“I have no doubt that a parliamentary system is highly more democratic and less risky than a presidential one. I think that the right thing to do is to work towards a reform that allows a parliamentary system,” Binner.
Earlier, Civic Coalition presidential candidate Elisa Carrió said that “the government hides, behind a ‘parliamentary reform,’ the idea of instilling the indefinite reelection. There are opposition forces that support this notion, such as Binner’s Progressive Front.”
Source: Buenos Aires Herald