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ARGENTINIAN President Cristina Fernandez congratulated Britain’s new Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn within hours of his election on Saturday.
Ms Fernandez sent a letter of congratulation on behalf of her government to the veteran leftwinger, who won a landslide in the first round of the party’s leadership election when the results were announced on Saturday morning.
She called him a “great friend of Latin America” who shared the continent’s demand for equality and respect for political sovereignty.
“This is also the triumph of all of us who represent the will to put politics at the service of the people and the economy at the service of the wellbeing of all citizens,” she said.
Ms Fernandez also recalled that Mr Corbyn had always championed the call for peace and dialogue between Argentina and Britain over the disputed Falkland Islands.
He was first elected in 1983, the year after the Falklands War.
“Today, hope has triumphed,” Ms Fernandez concluded.
