Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner speaks to supporters from a balcony at the Casa Rosada Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires October 29, 2015. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's outgoing leader Cristina Fernandez gave an emotional campaign speech on Thursday in her first public address since a surprisingly weak performance by her party's candidate in the first-round presidential election on Sunday.
Without mentioning allied candidate Daniel Scioli by name, the leftist president implicitly backed him by calling for her progressive social policies to go on after she hands the presidency over to her successor in six weeks.
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