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    October 23, 2011

Argentina's President Poised for Sweeping Reelection

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   Argentina's current president and presidential candidate Cristina
   Fernandez de Kirchner speaks during her closing campaign rally in
   Buenos Aires, October 19, 2011.
   Photo: Reuters
   Argentina's current president and presidential candidate Cristina
   Fernandez de Kirchner speaks during her closing campaign rally in
   Buenos Aires, October 19, 2011.

   Public opinion polls in Argentina suggest President Cristina Fernandez
   de Kirchner will post a convincing victory over her six opponents in
   Sunday's election.
   President Fernandez de Kirchner needs at least 45 percent of the total
   vote, or 40 percent of the vote along with a lead of at least 10
   percent over her closest opponent to avoid a runoff and win her second
   four-year term as president.
   Also at stake in Sunday's election are 130 seats in Argentina's lower
   house of Congress and 24 seats in the Senate.
   Fernandez de Kirchner - a former economy minister - is expected to
   benefit from Argentina's current economic growth and her leadership in
   steering the country past its financial crisis in 2001 and 2002.
   Fernandez de Kirchner has vowed to dedicate her second term to the
   memory of her late husband and predecessor as president, Nestor
   Kirchner, who died of a heart attack a year ago.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.

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