Jubilation and anger as Mauricio Macri becomes Argentina’s new president

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Jubilation and anger as Mauricio Macri becomes Argentina’s new president



BUENOS AIRES: -- Argentina’s new president Mauricio Macri has taken up the reigns, heading up a country which is deeply divided.

His swearing-in has brought both his supporters and those of former leader Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner out onto the streets of Buenos Aires.

She snubbed all of the inauguration events, following weeks of bickering.

Minutes after centre-right Macri made a speech calling for national unity, groups representing both sides jeered each other in front of the Government House.

Macri’s supporters are pleased to see a new face at the top.

“This is why there is crime, because the government was an accomplice, an accomplice of the drug traffickers. With Macri, this will come to an end,” said supporter Agustin Toledo.

But for members of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo – whose children disappeared during the country’s dictatorship that began in the mid 1970s – Macri’s appointment is a mistake.

“Once again, the enemy will be inside Government House. For 12 years, he was not there,” said Hebe de Bonafini, from the group, who joined a march in Buenos Aires.

“He’s a man who believes the country is a company, a man whose speech is shameful and who uses the Supreme Court to give him his presidential attributes.”

Macri is Argentina’s first non-Peronist president in more than a decade. He has promised to end policies of leftist populism and revive the country’s ailing economy.


-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2015-12-11

[elgordo38]

Nice picture this will be the epitone the absolute peak of his popularity. Tomorrow after the hangovers fade reality will set in.

[Publicus]

Another South American Bric in the wall gone.

The lady president had aligned Argentina with the Brics and attended all their meetings giving her support. The new president is highly unlikely to associate with Putin, Xi Jinping or with Rousseff who is the leftist politically deceased president of Brazil.

Brics have fallen into a heap.

[Srikcir]

Macri has to hit the presidency on the run or his support will evaporate like a pampas morning fog.

Fernandez left Macri with a scorched earth economy with the intention to obstruct implimentation of Marci's economic policies. Her legacy is a fiscal deficit reaching 7% of GDP, not seen since 1982. Inflation is almost 25% and foreign exchange reserves at are at their lowest levels. More scarifice will have to come from the Argentine people before Marci can stabilize the economy.

Macri will have to become a conservative Tsipras to impose more austerity over nationalistic pride. And Fernandez will be remain an active critique and political foe to return to power. But at least for now the future of Argentine lies with the People.

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Good luck to him, she was an incompetent disaster.