'Four more years are more than enough,' CFK says

While giving a press conference with her Venezuelan counterpart, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner assured that “four more years are more than enough,” after Hugo Chávez referred to her second presidential term, scheduled to begin next December 10th.

Fernández de Kirchner made these statements after interrupting Chávez, who mistakenly congratulated her for a new “eight-year presidential term.”

“Now that Cristina is about to embark on an eight-year term and I’m going to start a six-year period next year-” he began saying when she stopped him short.

“Don’t even think about saying that!” she replied. “I can already see eight editorials and twenty headlines about it tomorrow. Four years are more than enough,” she warned, and then explained that the Argentine Constitution establishes a four-year presidential term. 

After sharing some laughs, Chávez apologized and continued his speech.

“We’ve got four years ahead of us in order to strengthen our achievements and re-launch our strategic relationship to higher levels, in response to what is going on in the world,” he said.

As soon as Fernández de Kirchner achieved a landslide victory in the August 14th primaries, several lawmakers in the Kirchnerite party toyed around with the possibility of an “eternal Cristina” and suggested a constitutional amendment that allowed presidents to run for re-reelection, but the President herself was quick to come out against the rumours and assured that she had no intentions to serve more than two terms.