Tuesday, July 19, 2011

'Santa Fe has fallen below the national average,' CFK says

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said that “Santa Fe province must grow more,” because “it has fallen below the national average in the last few years,”  while attending the inauguration ceremony of a Unitec biodiesel plant in Puerto San Martin, alongside Governor Hermes Binner and five days before the gubernatorial elections.

Fernández de Kirchner’s comments took place before the end of the electoral campaign in Santa FE, which will take place on Sunday. Kirchnerite lawmaker Agustín Rossi will as as the Victory Front's gubernatorial candidate. Antonio Bonfatti, backed by Binner, leads polls ahead of the elections.

“Santa Fe is the birthplace of cooperativism, it has a lot of experience in the subject so it will be able to grow even more. Because it is true that it has grown, but below the national level. It is necessary that Santa Fe grows above the national level,” Fernández de Kirchner said.

Senator Carlos Reutemann, one of the principal drivers of Peronism in Santa Fe, had informed he would not be attending the event, making it clear that he “had always been a Peronist, but never a Kirchnerite.”

The comments from the ex governor of Santa Fe came after Rossi gained more confidence, following gaining support of Reutemann followers for the upcoming election.