Argentine Ruling Party Denies Pressuring Interim President to Quit

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Argentine Ruling Party Denies Pressuring Interim President to Quit

Jose Manuel de la Sota, one of the key leaders of Argentina's ruling Peronist Party, rejected late Sunday the allegation that he had pressed Adolfo Rodriguez Saa to quit as interim president.

Jose Manuel de la Sota, one of the key leaders of Argentina's ruling Peronist Party, rejected late Sunday the allegation that he had pressed Adolfo Rodriguez Saa to quit as interim president.

In a statement to the press, De la Sota said "I regret that the former president blamed me for his resignation."

Adolfo Eodriguez Saa announced his resignation late Sunday amid the country's growing economic crisis. While presenting his "unavoidable" resignation, Rodriguez Saa indicated that De la Sota, together with other leaders of the Peronist Party, refused to give him political support for the emergency plan which is aimed at curbing the country's economic crisis.

De la Sota, governor of the central province of Cordoba, is one of those Peronist leaders who are recommended last week as candidates for the presidential elections set for March 3, 2002.

De la Sota, however, said he should think about whether he runs for the country's top job or not in the face of the current political and economic crisis.

Nevertheless, De la Sota said the Legislative Assembly is likely to move up the date for the general elections and to call the Argentine people to vote as soon as possible so as to reinstall the country's institutional normality.

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