Presidential candidate Hermes Binner assured that “reforming the Constitution is not a priority, but seeing how we face in the international crisis is,” downplaying rumours he has a secret deal with the Government to enable a potential indefinite reelection of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
The Santa Fe province governor once again tried to distance himself from Elisa Carrió’s comments, which stated that he would close a deal with the Government to approve a constitutional reform that would enable President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s indefinite reelection.
“Today’s priority is not reforming the Constitution, but seeing how we will face the international crisis, because Argentina is not isolated from the world,” the Progressive Front candidate assured while addressing reporters.
Nonetheless, Binner said he would support a constitutional reform to change the current presidential system to a parliamentary system, and recalled that “in the 1994 constitutional reform the Socialist party backed that notion,” although is not part of the Progressive Front’s current agenda.
The Santa Fe governor, who polls predict will end in second place in Sunday’s elections, refused to predict results of next Sunday’s presidential elections, and said that “there are many people who change their vote in the last minute. We are very confident in our space, we have traveled throughout the entire country, we have presented our programme, which embodies the consolidation of all the agreements obtained by the political movements that are part of FAP,” Binner explained.
Likewise, Binner stated that in five weeks of campaign rallies obtained 2 million votes that generated enthusiasm. We are surprised by the amount of young people.”
Regarding fellow presidential candidate Ricardo Alfonsín, Binner assured that they discussed the possibility of facing each other in an internal election and then join forces before the primaries, but the Radical Party leader “didn’t see it that way and privileged his deal with Francisco de Narváez. We opposed to a black and white proposal and preferred to think a light blue and white proposal,” he concluded.
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