2011 Presidential elections
Sunday, October 23, 2011'I can’t do this all by myself, I need you to help me,' CFK
Reelected President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner urged Argentines to join in “national unity” and asked to “avoid being distracted by useless confrontations.”
Likewise, a tearful Fernández de Kirchner, 58, told thousands of supporters who packed the Plaza de Mayo that lies before the pink presidential place in Buenos Aires that "If any one of us had said this was possible two years ago, they would have told us we were crazy,"
"There's a lot left to do, but if anyone had seen this country before 2003, they'd realize how much progress we've made," Fernández said in a speech laden with references to her late husband and presidential predecessor, Néstor Kirchner, who governed from 2003 to 2007.
“If there are things that can be improved, then they should tell us how to do it, but we have to become a different country, in which whoever comes next gets to build on top of what their predecessors already built,” she stated.“I dream of an Argentina that has continuity, and for that continuity to become a national project,” the President added.
The reelected President also highlighted that during her political career she reached levels “she had never dreamed of,” and stressed that she is a 58-year old woman who wants “nothing but to keep expanding her political project, aimed at helping improving the life of 40 million Argentines.”
“I’m not motivated by any interests, except for the profound love I feel for Argentina,” she said.
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