The Governor of the province of Chubut, Mario Das Neves said "the ‘Kirchnerism' is finished" after ex-president Néstor Kirchner was defeated by a narrow margin in Sunday's mid-term elections, after a meeting with Buenos Aires Governor Daniel Scioli to discuss the next steps of the Peronist Party.

Das Neves said he would ask Scioli, current chairman of the Peronist party, to call for internal elections in the Peronist party. Talking to reporters before the meeting, Das Neves, who said he is planning to run for the presidency in 2011, said "the citizenry has put an end to their style of politics, but not to the Peronist party."

"There's only one way to conceive the election results, we lost," he added, and said Peronists should invite businessman and congressman Francisco to return. "The party should reopen its doors and improve dialgue."

Das Naves said the party should improve dialogue between its different factions, and expressed his support to Scioli, who was appointed as head of the party following the resignation of ex-president Néstor Kirchner, who headed the Peronist slate in Buenos Aires province that lost by a two-percent margin to De Narváez, of the centre-right Unión-PRO.

Scioli earlier met with the head of the CGT General Labour Confederation, who said the party should be "reactivated" after it lost by a narrow margin to dissident Peronist Francisco de Narváez in Buenos Aires province, a traditional stronghold of the Peronism