Now a Frepaso senator, Graciela Fernandez Meijide, will head the joint list, and Mr Alfonsin will not stand at all.

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"This is more than just an ordinary mid-term election, " Reuters news agency quoted Graciela Romer, a Buenos Aires pollster, as saying.

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In Buenos Aires, Health Minister Graciela Ocana confirmed Argentina's first H1N1 case -- a man who arrived April 25 from Mexico.

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The financial threat is especially serious for Graciela Bevacqua, who lost her job as head of INDEC in 2007 for refusing to tamper with the price index.

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Graciela Bevacqua, the professional statistician responsible for the consumer-price index (CPI) until Mr Moreno forced her out, says that he tried to get her to omit decimal points, not round them.

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The ceremony was opened by the Minister of Foreign Relations, Mr Luis Almagro, the Minister of Education and Culture, Mr Ricardo Ehrlich, Mr Alberto Breccia Secretary of the Presidency of the Republic of Uruguay, Ms Graciela Jorge, Executive Secretary of Human Rights of the Presidency of the Republic of Uruguay and Mr Jorge Grandi Director of UNESCO Montevideo.

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