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CFK assures that 'we have performed an impressive task in the last six years'
Buenos Aires Herald
June 21, 2009

Argentina President Cristina Fern ndez de Kirchner says the Victory front party "performed an impressive task in the last six years."

Cristina Fern ndez de Kirchner addressed a crowd of followers in the Greater Buenos Aires disctrict of Ezeiza where she inaugurated a sports stadium that bears the name of Diego Armando Maradona, Argentina's soccer idol, now the coach of the national soccer team, and assured "We managed to change the quality of life to many of our countrymen".

The President is making daily appearances throughout the country in rallies of the Victory Front coalition for next Sunday's Congressional elections, in which half of the 257 House seats and one third of the 72 Senate seats will be renewed. Two opposition coalitions, the centre-right Union-Pro and the Social and Civic Accord are challenging her Congressional majority

The President mentioned the public works "that have changed the face of Ezeiza" and added that "this scenario is the same in the rest of the country, because we were able to combine economic growth with the creation of jobs in the last six years", since her husband's inauguration in 2003 and during her own Administration since 2007.

"We have inaugurated thousands of housing complexes, hospitals, health centres, and highways. I believe it has been an impressive task", she said.

Cristina reminded that yesterday she had also presided on a ceremony granting the first housing loans provided through social security funds by the Banco Hipotecario for medium and low income families.

The social security system, managed by private banks since the nineties, is again in Government hands as from last year.

"You can count on the permanent commitment of this President to keep working for creating more welfare, jobs and a better life quality for the majority of Argentines, to compensate for long decades of abandonment and neglect ", said Cristina.

The President also compared the efficient performance of the new state agency AYSA in installing or renewing the sewage and water systems in the densely populated Great Buenos Aires area, with the inefficiency of the previous private company in charge of that function. It was a subsidiary of a French consortium, whose contract was cancelled by former President Kirchner.

"I recall the struggle we had in Congress, because I was a Senator at that time, to recover for the State the water and sewage services through AYSA", said Cristina, who pointed out that the political groups that rejected that move now form part of the coalitions opposing her Government.

"The role of the State is to assist the most vulnerable social sectors, providing solutions in matters of water, sewage services, housing and jobs" stated the President.

"What is important is not to talk but to do the things we have done. We could speak for hours about what we did and plan to do. Because we enjoy the legitimacy of our performance, of having transformed and to keep transforming Argentina", she said.

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