Ninety percent of the population lives in urban areas, out of a total of 36.1 million one-third resides in Gran Buenos Aires. The population is made up of people of European descent, most originally came from Spain or Italy. People that live in Argentina are called Argentines and they speak Spanish, Italian, German, and French. Paraguayans and Uruguayans are permanent residents in Argentina and they make up a large middle class who work in industry, own small businesses or hold government and professional jobs. They live in tall modern buildings. Since the 1930s rural workers have flocked to Argentina’s big cities. In the rural areas people live and work in ranches, others own small farms. Their standard of living is not as good as those residing
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The constitution provides for a federal union of provinces that retain all powers not specifically delegated to the federal government by the constitution. There is a separation of powers among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, but the president is powerful within this arrangement. The president can draw up and introduce his own bills in Congress, appoint cabinet members and other officials without the consent of the Senate, and possesses broad powers to declare a state of siege and suspend the constitution. The president is commander-in-chief of the army, navy, and air force and appoints all major civil, military, naval, and judicial offices, with the approval of the Senate in certain cases. In other words, their government is not like the United States’s because we have checks and balances, where each branch is equally as powerful, but the executive branch in Argentina is basically the highest of the land, the president controls everything and doesn’t need to consult with the other branches to get things done. The president is also responsible, with the cabinet, for the acts of the executive branch and has the right of patronage. The president and vice president are directly elected for a four-year term and cannot be reelected beyond a second consecutive term.
The constitution provides for a federal union of provinces that retain all powers not specifically delegated to the federal government by the constitution. There is a separation of powers among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, but the president is powerful within this arrangement. The president can draw up and introduce his own bills in Congress, appoint cabinet members and other officials without the consent of the Senate, and possesses broad powers to declare a state of siege and suspend the constitution. The president is commander-in-chief of the army, navy, and air force and appoints all major civil, military, naval, and judicial offices, with the approval of the Senate in certain cases. In other words, their government is not like the United States’s because we have checks and balances, where each branch is equally as powerful, but the executive branch in Argentina is basically the highest of the land, the president controls everything and doesn’t need to consult with the other branches to get things done. The president is also responsible, with the cabinet, for the acts of the executive branch and has the right of patronage. The president and vice president are directly elected for a four-year term and cannot be reelected beyond a second consecutive term.