Cristina Fernández achieved an unprecedented triumph of democracy in Argentina
Fernandez's victory prevented the second round and opened the door to the absolute majority of officers in the Argentine Congress.
It's the biggest endorsement of a candidate since democracy returned to Argentina in 1983, with about 55% of the vote.
The Socialist Hermes Binner, the second most votes, 15% achieved.
76% of the nearly 29 million Argentines go to the polls voted on this journey.
The president of Argentina, the Peronist Cristina Fernandez , has achieved this Sunday reelection in the general elections held in the South American country.
Counted for 15.5 percent of votes, the candidate gets the win with 53% of the votes , while the Socialist Hermes Binner, the Broad Progressive Front, placed second, with 16.98 percent of the vote.
However, a survey of exit polls commissioned by the Government awarded to Cristina's triumph with 57% of the vote.
Over 76% of the nearly 29 million Argentines have voted enabled, according to the House Elections.
It is expected that the gap between Fernandez and the opposition is greater as counting progresses
At the current rate, higher than the polls predicted before the election, Fernandez would be supported with the highest percentage achieved by a president since the return of democracy in 1983.
In addition to president and vice president, Argentina also voted Sunday to 130 national deputies for half of the lower house and 24 senators to replace one third of the body, and renews the government of nine provinces.
The policies of the triumph
Fernandez has prevailed throughout the country except in the small province of San Luis, cradle of presidential candidate Alberto Rodriguez Saa, and has broken records in history 's most impoverished areas. Their candidates have been placed in eight of the nine provinces were chosen Governor won the ruling.
The calls for moderation and unity that marked the last year in office, since the former President Nestor Kirchner widowed, have, according to local analysts, crucial to overcome the wear that had accumulated in the first stage of management that opened in 2007.
In addition, Fernandez has maintained the policy of human rights initiated by her husband, with the trials of the repressive military dictatorship (1976-1983), has significantly improved pension and minimum wage and has deepened populist strategies of subsidies , such as assigning universal child.
Policies that, together, have provided new support for part of the middle class urban and demonstrates its success unprecedented in the city of Buenos Aires, ruled by the conservative Mauricio Macri.
Thousands of people took to the streets of Buenos Aires after the close of the polls to participate in a festival in the Plaza de Mayo and celebrate the victory of their candidate, who began the day with a moving evocation of the figure of Nestor Kirchner , to cast their vote in the Patagonian city of Rio Gallegos, where he has fixed his family residence.
"Cristinazo"
The elections were also present in social networks like Twitter, where "Cristinazo" and "Binnerazo" are among the most frequently mentioned issues, referring to the overwhelming victory that would have gotten the president of Argentina, the Peronist Cristina Fernandez and second place obtained by the Socialist Hermes Binner, according to early polls. Supporters of one and another fight in the "tweets" to see who gets higher in the trend topics.
In the province of Buenos Aires, the current governor, Daniel Scioli, literally swept with a lead of more than 40 points, the dissident Peronist Francisco de Narvaez, a Colombian-born businessman who was willing to immediately recognize his defeat.
Also expected was the second place he achieved Hermes Binner , which passes the central government of the province of Santa Fe to become Argentina's opposition leader as head of a broad front that aims to pay tribute to the eponymous Uruguayan force.
A surprise, but unpleasant, was the Radical candidate, Ricardo Alfonsín , who just won the 13.21 percent of votes and lost the second position it had achieved in the primary election in August.
One of the surprises of the day was the apology of former President Fernando de la Rua
The defeat of Alfonsin, who based his campaign on trying to emulate the image of his father, the late Raul Alfonsin, the first democratic president after the dictatorship, will likely lead to the Radical Civic Union to review their mistakes and rethink their political strategy.
The dissident Peronist governor of San Luis, Alberto Rodriguez Saa, took the 7.33 per cent.
The other surprise of the day came from the hand of the leftist Jorge Altamira, a Trotskyite who had been a "miracle" in the August primary to get the votes needed to stay in the fight today presidential candidate beat known and Elisa Carrio, Civic Coalition, the big loser of the day.
Carrie said just 1.66 percent of the vote, far from giving up, said parliamentary leader of your small group.
Eduardo Duhalde , former President, former governor of Buenos Aires and leader of the Peronist forgotten, was the other big loser of the day, with the worst performance in his political career. Duhalde, who led the country between 2002 and 2003 and designated successor to Kirchner, has garnered only 5.6 percent of votes, he will not give up politics.
In addition, one of the surprises of the day was the request for an apology from the former president Fernando de la Rua , who resigned in 2001 amid the worst crisis in the country's history. "There are about ten years since I quit the government if anything bother anyone, if I made a mistake I apologize to the people," said the president going to vote in Argentina's capital.
National unity and tribute to Nestor Kirchner
I want to call all national unity, not to distract us from useless confrontations, "the president said in his first appearance after the official confirmation of his overwhelming victory in general elections, with more than 53 percent of the vote and about 36 points ahead of the second candidate.
The president, meanwhile, returned Sunday to mourn at the memory of her husband and predecessor, the late former President Nestor Kirchner. "It's the great founder of the victory tonight" and "without the things that he dared would have been impossible to get here," said Fernandez.
The president appeared to rigorous mourning before hundreds of supporters gathered at a hotel in Buenos Aires and melted in an embrace with her children, Florence and Max, and even his girlfriend, Agustina.
A "he" as emphatically refers to President Kirchner since his death, "it was the hand in fighting for the dreams and lost his life. I want to be an example for all young people and to all men and women in politics, "he said.
"When I think of him, in 2003 and 22 percent of votes, my God, all he could do, and now I see these numbers, which are impressive and deeply appreciate. They thought that if the numbers two years ago, We have tried crazy, "he admitted.
"I have the honor of being the first woman in the country re-elected. what more I can love. I just want to contribute with the highest responsibility to follow Argentina's bigger, "he said, visibly moved.
Another surprise of the day was the request for an apology from the former president Fernando de la Rua , who resigned in 2001 amid the worst crisis in history.
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