Argentine president rejects constitution reform, backs judicial changes
(Reuters) - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez told Congress on Friday she will not push for a constitutional overhaul that would let her run for a third consecutive term but will go ahead with a broad judicial reform proposal.
Fernandez, who has been in power for six years, will now have to step down after the next presidential election in 2015. Some of her supporters had sought a constitutional change allowing her to stand again.
"No constitution is going to be reformed, you can all relax," the left-leaning president told lawmakers in her annual state of the union address in which she outlined proposals aimed at "democratizing" the justice system.
They include holding public elections to pick members of the Magistrates Council, a powerful body that nominates and disciplines the nation's judges.
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