Kirchner Handed Stinging Defeat in Argentina

Good, add this to another defeat for left in America along with the revolution in Honduras:

Just after 2 a.m., a weary Mr. Kirchner told supporters, “We have lost and we don’t have any problem recognizing our opponents’ victory,” as results indicated the party had lost control of both houses of Congress.

With 74 percent of votes counted in the key Buenos Aires Province elections, Mr. Kirchner’s Front for Victory coalition had 32.1 percent of the vote, trailing the Union-PRO party led by Francisco de Narváez, a congressman and businessman, with 34.5 percent.

Mr. Kirchner, who as president guided the country out of its devastating economic crisis of 2001, ran for the lower house of Congress as part of an effort to save the Peronists from a humiliating defeat in Sunday’s elections. Without a first-place finish, the chances that the couple will continue their political dynasty in the 2011 presidential elections will dim badly, political and investment-risk analysts said.

We need the left defeated here in 2010 and Chavez's himself diminished.