A report on Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Mauricio Macri

Mauricio Macri and Martín Palermo, football player of Boca Juniors.

First Lady Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (right) campaigning alongside her husband, Néstor Kirchner in 2007.

Fernández de Kirchner with minister of economy Axel Kicillof

Fernández de Kirchner announces the bill to renationalize YPF

Macri (center) with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (left) and Buenos Aires Governor Daniel Scioli (right) in 2008

Road blockade during the 2008 Argentine government conflict with the agricultural sector in Villa María, Córdoba

Macri on a 200 Series train on Line A of the Buenos Aires Underground, January 2013

200,000 people took part in a cacerolazo against Fernández de Kirchner

Macri with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner during the inauguration of Autopista Illia in 2014

A financial firm located at the Madero Center hotel sparked The Route of the K-Money scandal

Macri inspecting Metropolitan Police graduates

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner with the Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo

Macri and Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio (now Pope Francis)

President Kirchner after the defeat at the 2009 midterm elections

Macri campaigning in Cordoba, in August 2015

Fernández de Kirchner with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in 2011

Macri receives the presidential sash from acting president Federico Pinedo.

Fernández de Kirchner with then-Buenos Aires Mayor and successor Mauricio Macri in 2014

Macri at the World Economic Forum, January 2018.

Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (right) alongside President Alberto Fernández (left) in 2021.

Argentine delegation to the World Economic Forum in Davos, in 2016. It was the return of the country to the conference after 11 years of absence.

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in presidential regalia posing with her children, Máximo and Florencia (2011)

Macri with former president Bill Clinton, Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi, economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and London mayor Sadiq Khan at the Clinton Global Initiative

Coat of Arms of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as a member of Order of Isabella the Catholic

Macri negotiating the loan with Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF.

Macri announcing an investment deal for the Vaca Muerta shale deposit in Patagonia

Mauricio Macri, US president Donald Trump and their respective first ladies, at the White House in the United States

Macri and German chancellor Angela Merkel during the 2017 G20 Summit in Hamburg

Macri acknowledged Juan Guaidó as president of Venezuela during the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis.

Mauricio Macri during the electoral campaign of 2017

Demonstration in support of Maldonado during the Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice.

He immediately backed out of his pact with Sobisch and remained neutral during the national election, which was won by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of the Front for Victory (FPV).

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Mayor Mauricio Macri pointed out that the national government had prevented the city from taking out international loans, which would have been used for infrastructure improvements.

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Néstor Kirchner

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Kirchner (second-from-right) during a political rally, after the National Reorganization Process allowed political activity.

Presidential ballot of the Néstor Kirchner – Daniel Scioli ticket.

Kirchner and Roberto Lavagna, Minister of Economy during most of his presidency

Kirchner and Presidents Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil at a 2006 summit in Brasília

Kirchner oversees the removal of military portraits from the National Reorganization Process at the National Military College.

Kirchner returns to Argentina after the unsuccessful Operation Emmanuel.

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Hugo Moyano at Kirchner's funeral

The Mausoleum of Néstor Kirchner in Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz was built by Lázaro Báez.

Néstor Carlos Kirchner Jr. (25 February 1950 – 27 October 2010) was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007, Governor of Santa Cruz Province from 1991 to 2003, Secretary General of UNASUR and the first gentleman during the first tenure of his wife, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

Duhalde also unsuccessfully approached Mauricio Macri, Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, Felipe Solá, and Roberto Lavagna, all of whom refused to run.

Fernández (right) with President Néstor Kirchner and Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana in 2007.

Alberto Fernández

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Argentine politician, lawyer and professor, serving as president of Argentina since 2019.

Fernández (right) took oath as the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers under President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on 10 December 2007

President-elect Fernández meets with outgoing President Macri following national elections that took place the previous day.

President Alberto Fernández (left) with his Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (right)

Meeting with Pope Francis on 31 January 2020.

The announcement of the lockdown by Fernández was generally well received, although there were concerns with its economic impact.

Fernández receiving the first dose of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 on 21 January 2021.

Fernández and Fabiola Yáñez with U.S. President Joe Biden and Jill Biden at the 9th Summit of the Americas in 2022

A member of the center-left, Peronist faction within the Justicialist Party, Fernández was the party's candidate for 2019 Argentine general election and defeated incumbent president Mauricio Macri, with 48% of the votes.

He gave up his seat when he was appointed Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers by President Néstor Kirchner upon taking office on 25 May 2003, and retained the same post under Kirchner's wife and successor, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, upon her election in 2007.

Radical Civic Union

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Centrist and social-liberal political party in Argentina.

Since 2015, it has been a member of Cambiemos with Republican Proposal and Civic Coalition ARI, and supported Mauricio Macri in the 2015 and 2019 elections.

In recent years the UCR has been riven by an internal dispute between those who oppose and those who support the left-wing policies of Peronist President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her husband and predecessor Néstor Kirchner.

Justicialist Party

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The Justicialist Party (Partido Justicialista, ; abbr.

First emblem of the Peronist Party, used from 1946 to 1955

Current president Alberto Fernández belongs to the Justicialist Party (and has, since 2021, served as its chairman), as well as former presidents Juan Perón, Héctor Cámpora, Raúl Alberto Lastiri, Isabel Perón, Carlos Menem, Ramón Puerta, Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, Eduardo Camaño, Eduardo Duhalde, Néstor Kirchner, and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

Mauricio Macri was inaugurated as President of Argentina, ending 12 years of Kirchnerism.

2011 Argentine general election

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Argentina held national presidential and legislative elections on Sunday, 23 October 2011.

Ballots used in the primary elections on 14 August.

Ballot papers for the presidential election.

Incumbent president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of the Front for Victory won via landslide, with 54.11% of votes against Hermes Binner of Broad Progressive Front, she also secured a second term in office after the Front for Victory won just over half of the seats in the National Congress.

Numerous other candidates, or potential candidates, dropped out in May 2011, notably Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri, who instead sought a second term as mayor, and left-wing film maker Fernando Solanas (who ran unsuccessfully for the same post).

Bernardino Rivadavia, the first president of the Argentine Republic

President of Argentina

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Both head of state and head of government of Argentina.

He succeeded Mauricio Macri.

During Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández administration AAP used different aircraft for their global flights, most notably Boeing 747 loaned from Aerolíneas Argentinas and a private Bombardier Global 5000.

2007 Argentine general election

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Argentina held national presidential and legislative elections on Sunday, 28 October 2007, and elections for provincial governors took place on staggered dates throughout the year.

President Néstor Kirchner (2nd from right) backs winning Front for Victory candidates (from L to R)
Daniel Scioli (Governor), Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (President) and Julio Cobos (Vice President).

Buenos Aires Province Senator and First Lady Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of the Front for Victory won the election by 45.28% of votes against Elisa Carrió of Civic Coalition ARI, making her the second female president of Argentina and the first female president to be directly elected.

Ricardo López Murphy: Representing the center-right Recreate for Growth party, in alliance with the Republican Proposal party of newly elected Buenos Aires mayor Mauricio Macri. He previously ran in the 2003 election, reaching third place. Running mate: Esteban Bullrich.

2015 Argentine general election

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General elections were held in Argentina on 25 October 2015 to elect the President and National Congress, and followed primary elections which were held on 9 August 2015.

Opinion polls during the first round had underestimated the number of voters intending to vote for Macri, while later polls underestimated Scioli.

Then-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner casting her vote.

On the first runoff voting ever held for an Argentine Presidential Election, Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri narrowly defeated Front for Victory candidate and Buenos Aires Province Governor Daniel Scioli with 51.34% of votes.

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was re-elected in 2011.

Eduardo Duhalde

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Argentine Peronist politician who served as the interim President of Argentina from January 2002 to May 2003.

Ballot of the Justicialist Party for the 1989 presidential elections

Duhalde takes the oath of office as president of Argentina.

Depositors protest in February 2002 against the corralito, which forbade them from withdrawing money from their bank accounts. The measure was lifted in December.

US secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld and Argentine minister of defense Horacio Jaunarena.

Some of these potential candidates were Carlos Reutemann, José Manuel de la Sota, Mauricio Macri, Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, Felipe Solá and Roberto Lavagna, but none of those negotiations bore fruit.

Without consensus in the PJ for a single candidate for senator of the Buenos Aires province, both leaders had their respective wives run for the office: Hilda González de Duhalde for the PJ, and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner for the Front for Victory, which was kept by the Kirchners.

Daniel Scioli

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Argentine politician, sportsman, and businessman.

Scioli's running mate, Alberto Balestrini, President Kirchner and Scioli celebrate the victory of the Scioli-Balestrini ticket in the 2007 race for the Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, the nation's largest.

He was the candidate to the presidency for the Front for Victory ticket in the 2015 general elections, and lost to Mauricio Macri in a runoff election.

Scioli was the FPV candidate in the 2015 Argentine presidential election, and was endorsed by incumbent President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.