2015-12-10 18:09:00

New Argentine President is sworn in


(Vatican Radio) Incoming Argentine President Mauricio Macri, is promising a new direction and an array of business orientated reforms to pull the country out of the economic dolldrums.  

However, it's been a spat-full start for the new President. 

Listen to the report by James Blears:

Mauricio Macri is promising to be quote: "A leader who listens more than talks."  Outgoing Cristina Fernández who's famously said: "I'm not going away,"  has stayed away from his Inauguration.  

He insisted this would be done in the Presidential Palace. She was equally adament it would be in Congress.  

She said he shouted at her over the phone...so NO show.  She's the first leader NOT to hand over the Presidential sash since the end of the dark days of the Junta in 1983.  

Argentina newspaper La Prensa described it, as without precendent....it was also minus one President!

This controversy  ends 12 years of rule by Néstor Kirchner and then Cristina Kirchner de Fernández.
 
Mauricio Macri who's twice been elected President of Boca Juniors soccer club and was Mayor of Buenas Aires, has now got the top job.  He defeated Cristina's chosen successor Daniel Scioli, who was the  Governor of the State of Buenas Aires.
 
Double M is  promising to tackle the country's 30 percent inflation, improve conditions for business, improve infrastructure, sweep away restrictive currency controls, which has produced a booming black market for dollars, plus improve relations with the United States and Britain. No majority in either House of Congress is going to make much of this difficult.
 
A civil engineer by training, Mauricio Macri faces a long road ahead over the next four years. 








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