Despite its recent setback in the mid-term elections on June 28, the Victory Front will win the 2011 Presidential election, was the forecast of new Cabinet Minister Aníbal Fernández.

"The future President in 2011 will be a man or a woman belonging to the Victory Front", Fernández told a local news agency.

Aníbal Fernández added that the recent electoral defeat "does not mean the end" of the current political stage, that begun in 2003 with former President Néstor Kirchner and continued in 2007 by his wife, Cristina Fernendez de Kirchner.

The Cabinet Chief assured that "our political group will elect the next President." The ruling party is based on the Justicialist Party (PJ). Ex-president Néstor Kirchner, who belongs to the leftist faction of Peronism, recently resigned as chairman of the Justicialist Party.

Fernández reminded that political parties will have to appoint their Presidential candidates in primary elections in July 2011, three months before the general elections.

He also said that former provisional President Eduardo Duhalde (2002/2003), Kirchner's political foe in Peronism, has no chances of playing a role in the future. Duhalde had several times announced his retirement from active politics, but later he backed down and said that he was again a kingbolt in Peronism.

"Today I believe that the only political group that does things, the way former President Juan Domingo Perón recommended, is the one led by Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández", he added.

The Cabinet Chief also said that Peronism always worked through political fronts and that in 2011 it will continue that line of action. "In 1946 Perón's first Vice President was J. Hortensio Quijano, a Radical Party leader, and he included in his cabinet a Socialist and two representatives of the traditional oligarchy."

Fernández was strongly critical of Vice President Julio Cobos, a former Radical Party leader who was President CFK's running mate in the 2007 elections. Cobos later veered to the opposition when a year ago he broke a Senate tie on a key agrarian legislation debate by voting against the Government. "It was  shameful behavior," said Fernández.

Cobos is now one of the opposition's presidential hopefuls for the 2011 elections.