Boudou, for his part, took Fernandez’s spot behind the podium in the Casa Rosada and told top officials in a televised address that he would run the country as a team “while she gets the rest she deserves.”
“What Cristina wants is for us to maintain the administration, and to carry on this project that (her late husband) Nestor Kirchner began and that Cristina has continued,” said Boudou, whose popularity has sunk amid ongoing corruption investigations.
Argentina’s constitution provides for, but does not require, a formal transfer of power in case of extended health problems, said Daniel Sabsay, a constitutional lawyer. A full medical leave would require congressional approval, but short of that, “she alone decides, according to the problem she faces and her doctors’ advice, if she needs to delegate some powers to the vice president,” he told Radio Continental.
“There needs to be more information to lower the people’s anxiety,” said Fabian Perechodnik, who directs the Poliarquia political consulting firm.
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