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Reuters; BBC. 30 and 31 December 2001. Argentina's Interim President Resigns After Protests; Argentine interim leader resigns. BUENOS AIRES -- Argentine interim President Adolfo Rodriguez Saa resigned on Sunday, the country's second leader in just over a week to quit after violent street protests amid a grinding recession. Rodriguez Saa said in a televised address his resignation could not be rejected and was effective immediately. He had been due to hold office until elections in March but blamed his departure on a lack of support from his own Peronist Party. His departure came after renewed protests over the collapsing economy prompted his cabinet to offer to resign en masse. Mr Rodriguez Saa spent Sunday holding emergency talks with Peronist provincial governors, but most of them failed to turn up. The BBC's Daniel Schweimler in Buenos Aires says the caretaker president's failure to get the support he needed from his own party plunges the country ever deeper into crisis. "Argentines don't have the luxury of watching politicians who are only worried about their personal goals while the country goes up in flames," one, Carlos Ruckauf, governor of Buenos Aires province, told the newspaper Clarin on Sunday. Thousands of Argentines took to the streets late on Friday, protesting Rodriguez Saa's handling of an economic slump now in its fourth year and accusing him of putting corrupt politicians in his cabinet. After several hours of calm, violent clashes with police erupted, leading to looting of Congress and downtown banks. Violent protests that killed 27 people forced Fernando de la Rua to resign as president on Dec. 20 only halfway through his four-year term. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
