BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - Argentina's deeply divided politicians, reeling from the second resignation of a president in barely a week, clashed Monday over who would next lead a country plagued by riots and recession.
After violent street protests and a battle within the ruling Peronist Party led Adolfo Rodriguez Saa to suddenly quit as interim president Sunday, depressed Argentina found itself adrift with no consensus over how to end the chaos.
Eduardo Camano, head of the lower house of Congress, found himself with the hot potato of Argentina's provisional presidency after the Senate chief also resigned. But Camano can only head the country for 48 hours before Congress must name a new interim president, according to the Constitution.
One powerful Peronist governor called for an emergency ''government of national salvation,'' while another urged elections for a new president ``as soon as possible.''
But the non-stop political tumult raised questions about whether Argentina is governable at all as the crumbling middle class grows increasingly restless in its protests of widespread corruption and a deep recession now in its fourth year.