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Cristina Fernandez takes the oath of
office as Argentina's new president at the Congress in Buenos Aires,
Monday, Dec. 10, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Cristina Fernandez was sworn in on
Monday as president of Argentina for a four-year period in a ceremony in the
nation's legislature attended by heads of state and special guests.
"I swear before God, the nation and on the holy scriptures that I
will perform my duties as president of the nation," she said in the ceremony
that formally makes her president.
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Outgoing Argentine President Nestor
Kirchner applauds after his wife, Cristina Fernandez, was sworn in as
Argentina's next president, in Congress in Buenos Aires Dec. 10,
2007.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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Following her oath she received the presidential sash from Nestor
Kirchner, the outgoing president who is also her husband.
In her first speech as president, Fernandez praised her husband,
saying she receives the nation in much better shape than when he took power on
May 25, 2003. She said he had rebuilt the nation following political and
economic turbulence during his four and a half years of rule.
Fernandez, 54, said she backed Kirchner's convictions: defending
Argentines' interests as the basis for development.
Attending ceremony were the following presidents: Brazil's Luiz
Inacio Lula da Silva, Bolivia's President Evo Morales, Chile's Michelle
Bachelet, Colombia's Alvaro Uribe, Ecuador's Rafael Correa, Paraguay's Nicanor
Duarte, Uruguay's Tabare Vazquez and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.
Also attending were Mexico's Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa;
Spain's crown prince Felipe de Borbon, Canada's Governor General Michael Jean,
and United States Labor Minister Eliane Chao.
After the ceremony, Fernandez will go to the Casa Rosada seat of
government and then take part in the Mayo Place Democracy Festival.
Profile: Argentina's new president
Cristina Kirchner
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Cristina Fernandez delivers a speech
after being sworn in as Argentina's first elected female president at the
National Congress in Buenos Aires, Monday, Dec. 10, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters
Photo)
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BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Cristina
Fernandez de Kirchner was sworn in as Argentina's president on Monday
before the congress for four-year term after winning elections on October
28.
As Argentina's first elected woman president, she was born in La Plata in Buenos Aires province on Feb. 19, 1953, and studied law at the School of Legal and Social Sciences of La Plata National University in the 1970s.
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