Posted on 06/28/2009 8:37:34 AM PDT by ak267
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentines cast ballots in congressional elections on Sunday and are expected to throw out allies of President Cristina Fernandez in a rejection of her interventionist economic policies and combative style.
Fernandez, a center-leftist who in 2007 succeeded her husband ex-President Nestor Kirchner, has stagnated with a 30 percent approval rating as Latin America's No. 3 economy hits turbulence after a six-year expansion.
Polls show Fernandez's wing of the ruling Peronist party will lose its majority in the 257-seat lower house and barely maintain control of the 72-seat Senate in the mid-term vote.
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Oh please let this happen to this country in 2010.
Europe, Britain, Argentina, Israel, Honduras, (sort of) Iran, Canada, everyone but the USA (at least I hope untill the 2010 Elections ;)..then we get our revenge).
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