From midnight to noon, Senate Leader Federico Pinedo is gonna be running the show.
...It's a little complicated. Let's back up a little.
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The last few years of Kirchner's time in office have been, for lack of a better phrase, kind of nuts: a prosecutor who accused her government of covering up a terrorist plot from Iran turned up dead; she tried to dissolve the government's intelligence service afterwards; she sort of adopted a Jewish godchild; and, for good measure, mocked Chinese people's accents.
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Presumably wanting a clean break and to prevent any possible trickery, he actually filed a petition with the federal courts asking them to rule that Kirchner's term ends at midnight tonight. “This measure is intended to prevent the President from taking decisions that could affect the incoming authorities in the inauguration ceremony on Dec. 10,” the legal filing said.
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