Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner called her victory a
for all Argentines. Addressing supporters at her campaign headquarters in a hotel in Buenos Aires, she urged
society to work together. A country, she said, could not be built by a government alone.
Mrs Kirchner also thanked her husband, Nestor, who she will replace
President, before being drowned out by the cheering
.
With more than
percent of the vote she's won an outright victory with no need for a second round next month. The
economy minister, Roberto Lavagna, finished a distant second, and the ex-beauty queen, Elisa Carrio, was third.
Some of the candidates
fraud but the official results merely confirmed what the opinion
had been saying for several months - that Cristina Kirchner would be the first
woman president of Argentina.
Daniel Schweimler, BBC News, Buenos Aires
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