Global Comment: A disobedient woman: Cristina Fernandez re-elected President of Argentina

My latest at Global Comment, about the re-election of Cristina Fernandez. From the intro:

Yesterday, Cristina Fernandez was re-elected as President of Argentina with 54% of the votes (as of this writing, media reports she won by 54%, with final results expected by the end of the week, probably with a slight difference in her favor). Her political alliance, known as “Front for Victory” (a faction of the Justicialist Party) now controls both the Congress and the Senate. She is the third most voted President in Argentinian history (after Hipolito Yrigoyen in the 30’s and Juan Domingo Peron in the early ‘70’s). She is also the only Argentinian President to win with the biggest margin of votes to the closest opponent. At the time of this publication, her next contender, Hermes Binner is at a distant second with 16.9% and, in third place, Ricardo Alfonsin, with a paltry 11%. But this is not any victory, if anything,  this is the victory of a disobedient woman. A woman who systematically refused to be pigeonholed, controlled and manipulated. A woman whose policies might not be to everyone’s taste, but whose political skills cannot be derided. A woman who, for the first time in Argentina’s history, put gender at the center of a political project.

Read the rest at the link.