Efter måneders betænkningstid meddelte Argentinas præsident Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner tirsdag, at hun genopstiller til præsidentvalget i oktober, oplyser nyhedstjenesten Al Jazeera onsdag.
In a nationally televised address on Tuesday, Kirchner said, "we are once again going to go submit ourselves'' to the vote.
Tuesday's announcement should end any talk of a rival emerging from inside the Justicialist Party, her centre-left and populist Peronist grouping that has dominated Argentine politics for more than two decades.
Kirchner's main rival is expected to be lawmaker Ricardo Alfonsin, the son of an ex-president with the Radical Civic Union, another centre-left party that has the second largest showing in the Congress.
Polls indicate the Argentine president lacks majority support, but might easily win re-election in the October 23 first-round vote against a divided opposition.
The Argentine economy clocked a sizzling 9.2 per cent growth last year, and Kirchner's government will likely work to keep the economy hot in the run-up to the election.
However, her biggest challenge is to check rising inflation, which is believed to be running at well above the official rate of around 10 per cent.
