Breaking News, World News and Taiwan News.

Updated Tuesday, August 30, 2011 11:32 am TWN, AFP

Sponsors
▪	Get the best deals for Guangzhou Hotels or choose from more than 10,000 hotels in 499 Chinese cities.
▪	Find great real time deals on China Flights. Book flights to China or China domestic flights 24/7.
▪	Buy china wholesale products from reliable chinese wholesalers on DHgate.com!
▪	Save 75% for all hotels in Shanghai, Beijing and whole China. Lowest rates for Flights in China.

Argentina's president a shoo-in, says main rival

BUENOS AIRES -- Ricardo Alfonsin, the main rival of Argentina's incumbent President Cristina Kirchner, on Sunday admitted that she could be impossible to beat in the country's presidential race.

Beating Kirchner, who won a primary this month and now faces an Oct. 23 presidential runoff, is “unlikely, if not impossible,” Alfonsin said in an interview with Perfil newspaper.

A lawmaker and son of late president Raul Alfonsin, Ricardo Alfonsin, 59, did win the most votes of any single opposition figure, taking in 12.17 percent.

“I know that it is going to be quite difficult (to win the runoff) but I am going to keep working, and if we do not win, I will be working for ours to be the main opposition party,” said Alfonsin of the centrist Radical Civil Union.

The commanding lead for the 58-year-old widow of late president Nestor Kirchner sets her clearly on track to clinch a second term in the Oct. 23 vote, with analysts saying her reelection is near-certain.

The center-left Peronist (Justicialista) president rode to victory on the back of a strong economy. Argentina last year posted 9.2 percent economic growth.

Subscribe to The China Post and save 25%. Click here