A report on Elisa Carrió, Radical Civic Union and Mauricio Macri

Elisa Carrió votes in the 2007 elections. She lost, but made history as the first female runner-up to another woman in a presidential race.

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

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

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

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

Macri inspecting Metropolitan Police graduates

Macri and Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio (now Pope Francis)

Macri campaigning in Cordoba, in August 2015

Macri receives the presidential sash from acting president Federico Pinedo.

Macri at the World Economic Forum, January 2018.

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.

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

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.

Arms of Mauricio Macri as member of the Order of Isabella the Catholic

Elisa Carrió marked her firm stance against abortion before and after entering Congress, while Mauricio Macri encouraged legislators to maturely and responsibly debate an issue that divided the opposition and the ruling party.

- Elisa Carrió

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.

- Radical Civic Union

She was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for her province, representing the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR), in 1995, and in 1997, obtained passage of a bill giving constitutional authority to the international Treaty of Disappeared Persons.

- Elisa Carrió

The party has subsequently declined markedly and its candidate for president in 2003, Leopoldo Moreau gained just 2.34% of the vote, beaten by three Peronists and more seriously, by two former radicals, Ricardo López Murphy of Recrear and Elisa Carrió of ARI, who have leached members, support and profile from the UCR.

- Radical Civic Union

Elisa Carrió, leader of the Civic Coalition, thought that Macri had abandoned the transfer request, and Ibarra said that the forces' duties would overlap.

- Mauricio Macri

Other minor parties, such as the Radical Civic Union (UCR), the Civic Coalition (CC) and some socialist parties, made a political coalition, the Broad Front UNEN.

- Mauricio Macri

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Republican Proposal

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Centre-right

Macri was re-elected Mayor of Buenos Aires together with María Eugenia Vidal as Vice-Chief of the city.

President Macri and Vicepresident Gabriela Michetti, in their Inauguration Ceremony in Argentine Parliament, on 10 December 2015

PRO has governed the Buenos Aires since 2007 and formed Cambiemos with the Radical Civic Union and the Civic Coalition ARI with which they won the 2015 general election.

PRO began as an alliance between Commitment to Change (CPC) of Mauricio Macri, and Recreate for Growth (Recrear) of Ricardo López Murphy created in 2005.

These three parties nominated Mauricio Macri, Ernesto Sanz and Elisa Carrió as their representatives in the August 2015 primary elections, which were held to choose which candidate would run for the 2015 presidential election on 25 October.

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.

Acknowledging the support of a growing number of UCR figures ("K Radicals") to the populist policies advanced by Kirchnerism, the FpV nominated Mendoza Province Governor Julio Cobos as her running mate.

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.

Juntos por el Cambio

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Liberal political coalition in Argentina.

Macri and Carrió prepared a launch photo of their alliance.

Sanz designed an alliance between PRO and UCR

First speech of the president-elect Macri

Macri and the governor-elect, Maria Eugenia Vidal

Macri, Vidal and the new member, Pichetto

Macri and IMF Managing Director, Christine Lagarde.

Macri with the members of Cambiemos Gabriela Michetti, Federico Pinedo and Emilio Monzó at the Argentine Congress.

It is composed of Republican Proposal, Radical Civic Union, Civic Coalition ARI.

These three parties respectively nominated Mauricio Macri, Ernesto Sanz, and Elisa Carrió as their representatives in the August 2015 primary elections, which were held to choose which candidate would run in the 2015 presidential election on 25 October.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

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Argentine lawyer and politician who has served as the 37th Vice President of Argentina since 2019.

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

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

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

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

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

President Kirchner after the defeat at the 2009 midterm elections

Fernández de Kirchner with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in 2011

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

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

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

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

Fernández de Kirchner took part in a commission to investigate money laundering with fellow legislator Elisa Carrió, and got into conflicts with her.

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.

Argentina lacked a big opposition party since the collapse of the Radical Civic Union in 2001.