CFK calls for 'unity' during Independence Day celebrations

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner headed the celebrations of the 196th anniversary of the Argentine Declaration of Independence held in San Miguel de Tucumán.

During a televised speech, which started shortly after 2.30 pm, she defended the administration’s economic model, remembered the path her and late former President Néstor Kirchner took together nine years before and called for national unity.

“Nine years ago we came to Tucumán to celebrate the 9th of July and Néstor Kirchner lit a path. He proposed a change in which we had to break the chains imprisoning the possibilities of the people,” she remembered.

The head of state celebrated the breaking away from “multilateral institutions" that, according to her, "restricted growth and development."

“We were not mistaken when we talked about the necessity of labour and production,” the head of state said defending the administration’s model.

Fernández de Kirchner asked Argentines to remain united. “We face the colossal necessity of staying together. Those are fundamentals to keep believing,” she said.

“National unity is to find a middle ground so the country remains growing. I ask the forty million of Argentines to join the national unity unity because we need a superior one, bigger than the regional union,” she stressed.

She celebrated moreover the end of Corralito’s arrears by saying all debt was going to be “paid off by August 21st.”

The President arrived in the Tucumán province Monday morning and was greeted by Tucumán Governor José Alperovich and his wife, Kirchnerite Senator Beatriz Rojkés.

Fernández de Kirchner travelled alongside with the nation’s Vice-President Amado Boudou and several members of her cabinet.