CFK: 'I ask God to give us the strength we need to build a different country'

As part of the Bicentennial celebrations in Chaco province, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner spoke to the nation through a televised speech and before local and national authorities, governors and lawmakers. She remembered the day her late husband Néstor Kirchner took office back in 2003.

“It’s not an easy day for the president,” she said with tears in her eyes, adding that “eight years ago, I ws sitting on my senator seat along with Capitanich, seeing how my life partner was sworn in.”

After thanking her audience and the local and national authorities who were listening to her televised speech, president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner praised his late husband’s government and life. “I am sure he is happy because he lived the life he wanted to live and because he saw his dreams of youth come true,” she stressed.

“I only ask God for one thing: that he gives me and all Argentine people the strength, integrity, greatness, humility and solidarity that we all need to build a different country and a different society,” she exclaimed.

CFK had arrived earlier today at the international airport of Resistencia shortly before noon and then participated at the traditional Te Deum which was offered by the town’s Archbishop, monsignor Fabriciano Sigampa, at the local Cathedral.

Following the religious ceremony, the President received the greetings from local and foreign authorities.