Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has left the Argentine presidency, but is refusing to attend a ceremony to hand over to her successor Mauricio Macri.<\/p>\n
The outgoing left-wing leader and the centre-right president-elect disagree over where the ceremony should be held.<\/p>\n
Ms Fernandez bid farewell to a large crowd of her supporters in an emotional speech on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
She urged people to take to the streets if they felt betrayed by the new centre-right government.<\/p>\n
Venue worries<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr Macri has now arrived at Congress following a horseback parade that passed thousands of people who were lining the streets. He will take his oath of office before legislators at noon local time (15:00 GMT).<\/p>\n Following his inaugural speech, he will then travel to the presidential palace where he will receive the presidential sash and baton.<\/p>\n Ms Fernandez had insisted that the handover should also take place in Congress, where her party holds a majority of seats.<\/p>\n She argued that both she and her husband and predecessor in office, Nestor Kirchner, had received the symbols of power in Congress and it had therefore become a tradition to be followed.<\/p>\n Mr Macri argued that according to presidential protocol, the handover should be held in the presidential palace, as it did before 2003.<\/p>\n Local media reported that Mr Macri’s decision was probably driven not just by tradition but also by a concern that followers of Ms Fernandez could disrupt the ceremony in Congress.<\/p>\n Aides to Mr Macri said they feared her party could fill the gallery with her hardcore supporters.<\/p>\n Annoyed by Mr Macri’s insistence, Ms Fernandez announced she would skip both ceremonies altogether.<\/p>\n Mr Macri’s party in turn sought a court injunction affirming that Ms Fernandez’s term ended at midnight on Wednesday to settle the matter.<\/p>\n As a result, power was temporarily transferred to Senate Speaker Federico Pinedo, who is acting as head of state for 12 hours until Mr Macri’s inauguration.<\/p>\n Argentines have been mocking what many of them see as an unbecoming row over protocol.<\/p>\n Many posted unflattering photographs of Ms Fernandez on Twitter under the hashtag CFKverguenzaglobal (CFKglobalshame).<\/p>\n They also expressed surprise that the official Twitter account for the Argentine presidency, @CasaRosadaAR, had been turned into a “Twitter tribute” to Ms Fernandez and her late husband, called @CasaRosada2003-2015<\/p>\n Ms Fernandez and Nestor Kirchner held power in Argentina for those 12 years.<\/p>\n In his inaugural speech, Mr Macri is expected to call for unity and reconciliation.<\/p>\n The conservative politician is not only inheriting a nation divided into supporters and opponents of Ms Fernandez but also burdened with a host of economic problems, correspondents say.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has left the Argentine presidency, but is refusing to attend a ceremony to hand over to her successor Mauricio Macri. The outgoing left-wing leader and the centre-right president-elect disagree over where the ceremony should be held. Ms Fernandez bid farewell to a large crowd of her supporters in an emotional speech […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":173456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}