Menem confirms he will run for Senator, supports CFK's reelection

Former President Carlos Saúl Menem, showed up to vote in La Rioja’s gubernatorial elections, and confirmed that he’ll try to renew his post as Senator on next October’s presidential elections. Revealed that he will most probably vote for the president’s re-election but denied an alliance with the Kirchnerism.

However, Menem did not rule out the possibility of opening the dialogue with forces allied to the national government, including Governor Luis Beder Herrera.

Asked about the national government, Menem said he believes that President Fernández de Kirchner “is the one most qualified to govern the nation”, and revealed that he would vote for the current Head of State in case she decides to seek reelection, and predicted an easy first round win for the president.

Likewise, the former La Rioja governor denied having an agreement with the Kirchnerism, both nationally and locally. In fact, Menem confirmed that he will run through his own party on next October when seeking for another term in the Upper House.

Furthermore, the former nation’s leader who while in power promised to transform the nation into a “first world country” but ended up sinking it in one of the worse and calamitous crisis ever with more than half the population immersed in poverty, assured that the opposition “dispersed” and must somehow “come together in order to over shadow the ruling party.”