Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was forced to cancel her scheduled activities for a third time this year because of low blood pressure, less than two weeks before she seeks re-election.
Fernandez, 58, was ordered to rest yesterday and has cleared her schedule for today, according to a statement on her official website. “She’s recovering well” and will resume her activities tomorrow, Dr. Marcelo Ballesteros said in a separate statement on the website.
Fernandez, who leads polls ahead of the country’s Oct. 23 election, had been scheduled to visit a plant owned by food producer Molinos Rio de la Plata SA in Buenos Aires today. Her spokesman, Alfredo Scoccimarro, didn’t return a phone call by Bloomberg to his office seeking comment.
The president also canceled a trip to Mexico in April and suspended official activities in Argentina for a day in January due to low blood pressure. Fernandez succeeded her late husband, Nestor Kirchner, who died of a heart attack last October at the age of 60, as president in December 2007.
In June, Fernandez canceled a planned trip to a meeting of leaders of the Mercosur regional trade bloc in Paraguay after falling and cutting her forehead at an event in Buenos Aires.
–With assistance from Eliana Raszewski in Buenos Aires. Editors: Bill Faries, Robert Jameson, Philip Sanders.
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