A report on Radical Civic Union, Justicialist Party and Mauricio Macri

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

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

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

In return, the support of Peronism historically has been smaller between the urban middle class, who more identify with the Radical Civic Union party and other more democratic, liberal parties.

- Justicialist Party

In fact, the Peronist government's most important criticisms came from the same Peronist Party (now called Justicialist Party).

- Radical Civic Union

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

- Justicialist Party

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

This polarization was unrelated to the political polarization of the country, and the legislators of both Cambiemos and the Justicialist Party (PJ) were divided on the vote.

- Mauricio Macri

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Néstor Kirchner

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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.

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.

He was President of the Justicialist Party from 2008 to 2010.

Raúl Alfonsín, who was running for president for the Radical Civic Union (UCR), denounced an agreement between the military and the Peronist unions which sought an amnesty for the military.

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

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.

He joined the Justicialist Party (PJ), and soon became leader of its local branch.

The elections ended in a technical tie with the candidate of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), Horacio Devoy; Duhalde won by just 700 votes.

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.

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

The Justicialist Party (PJ), led by Carlos Menem, returned to the presidency in the 1989 general elections.

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.

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.

Separated from the latter, Celia (sister of the personal photographer of Juan Domingo Perón) married Judge Carlos Pelagio Galíndez (son of a Senator of the Radical Civic Union).

Argentina

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Country in the southern half of South America.

The surrender of Beresford to Santiago de Liniers during the British invasions of the Río de la Plata

Portrait of General José de San Martin, Libertador of Argentina, Chile and Peru.

People gathered in front of the Buenos Aires Cabildo during the May Revolution

Julio Argentino Roca was a major figure of the Generation of '80 and is known for directing the "Conquest of the Desert". During his two terms as President many changes occurred, particularly major infrastructure projects of railroads; large-scale immigration from Europe and laicizing legislation strengthening state power.

Official presidential portrait of Juan Perón and his wife Eva Perón, 1948

Admiral Emilio Massera, Lieutenant General Jorge Videla and Brigadier General Orlando Agosti (from left to right) – observing the Independence Day military parade on Avenida del Libertador, 9 July 1978.

Two members of the Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers guarding the Constitution of the Argentine Nation inside the Palace of the Congress.

Aconcagua is the highest mountain outside of Asia, at 6960.8 m, and the highest point in the Southern Hemisphere.

The national animal of Argentina is the Rufous hornero, a small songbird native to South America

Argentina features geographical locations such as this glacier, known as the Perito Moreno Glacier

The National Congress composed of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.

G 20 leaders gathered in Argentina for the 2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit.

Argentine destroyer ARA Almirante Brown (D-10)

A proportional representation of Argentina exports, 2019

The Catalinas Norte is an important business complex composed of nineteen commercial office buildings and occupied by numerous leading Argentine companies.

Atucha Nuclear Power Plant was the first nuclear power plant in Latin America. The electricity comes from 3 operational nuclear reactors: The Embalse Nuclear Power Station, the Atucha I and II.

Buenos Aires Underground is the oldest underground railway in Latin America, the Southern Hemisphere and the Spanish speaking world.

"Estudio País 24, the Program of the Argentines" in Channel 7, the first television station in the country

SAC-D is an Argentine earth science satellite built by INVAP and launched in 2011.

President Macri in the INVAP with the SAOCOM A and B, two planned Earth observation satellite constellation of Argentine Space Agency CONAE. the scheduled launch dates for 1A and 1B were further pushed back to 2018 and 2020.

The cacique Qom Félix Díaz meets with then president Mauricio Macri.

Over 25 million Argentines have at least one Italian immigrant ancestor.

Dialectal variants of the Spanish language in Argentina

Francis, the first pope from the Americas, was born and raised in Argentina.

Argentina has historically been placed high in the global rankings of literacy, with rates similar to those of developed countries.

The University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine, alma mater to many of the country's 3,000 medical graduates, annually

El Ateneo Grand Splendid was named the second most beautiful bookshop in the world by The Guardian.

Sun of May on the first Argentine coin, 1813

Four of the most influential Argentine writers. Top-left to bottom-right: Julio Cortázar, Victoria Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares

Martha Argerich, widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of the second half of the 20th century

Andy Muschietti, director of It, the highest-grossing horror film of all-time.

View of Bolívar Street facing the Cabildo and Diagonal Norte, on Buenos Aires' historical centre. The city's characteristic convergence of diverse architectural styles can be seen, including Spanish Colonial, Beaux-Arts, and modernist architecture.

Diego Maradona, one of the FIFA Player of the 20th Century

Lionel Messi, seven times Ballon d'Or winner, is the current captain of the Argentina national football team.

Argentine beef as asado, a traditional dish

The Cave of the Hands in Santa Cruz province, with artwork dating from 13,000 to 9,000 years ago.

Carlos Gardel, the most prominent figure in the history of tango

Civilian casualties after the air attack and massacre on Plaza de Mayo, June 1955

Juan Perón and his wife Isabel Perón, 1973

Argentinians soldiers during the Falklands War

Néstor Kirchner and his wife and political successor, Cristina Kirchner

Argentina map of Köppen climate classification

Lockheed Martin A-4AR Fightinghawk operated by the Argentine Air Force

Argentine provinces by population (2010)

Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires

In 1912, President Roque Sáenz Peña enacted universal and secret male suffrage, which allowed Hipólito Yrigoyen, leader of the Radical Civic Union (or UCR), to win the 1916 election.

The Labour Party later renamed Justicialist Party, the most powerful and influential party in Argentine history, came into power with the rise of Juan Perón to the presidency in 1946.

On 22 November 2015, after a tie in the first round of presidential elections on 25 October, center-right coalition candidate Mauricio Macri won the first ballotage in Argentina's history, beating Front for Victory candidate Daniel Scioli and becoming president-elect.