BUENOS AIRES-Mauricio Macri was sworn in Thursday as Argentina’s president, vowing to end an era of combative politics and bring Argentines together even as his predecessor and many of her supporters shunned his inauguration.
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She urged people to take to the streets if they feel betrayed by the new centre-right government. Kirchner, irate over the spat, boycotted the inauguration along with her allies in Congress. “This government will know how to defend freedom, which is essential for democracy”, Macri vowed in an inaugural address that laid out a sweeping agenda for change.
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In this Friday, Dec. 4, 2015 photo, Argentina’s President-elect Mauricio Macri walks down an inner ramp of the Planalto Presidential Palace, after meeting with Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, in Brasilia, Brazil.
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During her last days of office, Kirchner has kept herself busy by making changes to next year’s budget, as well as other changes to the current office, which could potentially hurt Macri’s administration.
Without mentioning him by name, Ms Fernandez framed the tiff as Mr Macri’s fault.
Macri’s party sought a court injunction which would affirm that her term would end at midnight on Wednesday. Incoming Senate speaker Federico Pinedo, the acting president since midnight, administrated the oath of office. Peronism is a now a fragmented force but many Argentines who in the same breath voice support and disdain for it have tended to turn to it in times of political and economic turmoil. During her two terms in power, Fernandez frequently accused other countries of meddling in this South American nation’s affairs, though rarely provided details. Macri won the presidential election last month by pledging to ease trade and currency controls and give the free market a chance after heavy state control of the economy under outgoing leader Cristina Fernandez.
In his inaugural speech, Macri is expected to call for unity and reconciliation.
“Macri has a very strong chance of settling this issue, mainly because he has the political will to do so and enjoys the trust of the markets”, said Jimena Blanco, head of Americas with global risk and strategy consultancy Maplecroft.
After receiving a ceremonial scepter and sash at the Casa Rosada, the country’s presidential palace, Macri along with his wife Juliana Awada, 41, waved to supporters from a balcony at the palace.
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The country defaulted on its debts a year ago for a second time in a dispute with hedge funds.
“We believe in that which we’ve attained so we must truly have a favorable approach to make sure that these matters WOn’t be ruined”, she said.
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But critics say she created a tradition of handouts and clogged Latin America’s third-biggest market with interventionist policies.
