Argentine President Fernandez Re-Elected With 53% Support

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner won re-election to a second four-year term today with the highest percentage of votes in four decades.

Fernandez had 53 percent support with 23 percent of votes counted, according to results on the Interior Ministry’s website. That is the biggest tally since Juan Domingo Peron returned to power in 1973 after a two-decade exile. Santa Fe province Governor Hermes Binner was second with 17 percent.