Argentina's political parties have agreed to suspend March presidential elections. This means a new interim president will govern until the next scheduled election in 2003.
The Congress is due on Tuesday to hold a legislative assembly to choose a new president after interim President Adolfo Rodriguez Saa quit yesterday amid street protests.
Rodriguez Saa had planned to rule until March elections for a leader to govern to the end of ex-President Fernando de la Rua's term in 2003.
Argentina has been in turmoil since the resignation of De la Rua midway into his four-year term was followed a week later by Rodriguez Saa's resignation after he lost support from his own Peronist party.
Argentina, which has suspended its foreign debt payments, is caught in a grinding four-year recession that has seen growing street protests, supermarket looting, and riots.
