Mauricio Macri and Related Topics

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

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.

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

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.

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

Buenos Aires

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Capital and primate city of Argentina.

Our Lady of Buen Aire in front of the National Migration Department

Juan de Garay founding Buenos Aires in 1580. The initial settlement, founded by Pedro de Mendoza, had been abandoned since 1542.

Aldus verthoont hem de stadt Buenos Ayrros geleegen in Rio de la Plata, painting by a Dutch sailor who anchored at the port around 1628.

Emeric Essex Vidal, General view of Buenos Ayres from the Plaza de Toros, 1820. In this area now lies the Plaza San Martín.

Impression of the Buenos Aires Cathedral by Carlos Pellegrini, 1829.

Construction of the Obelisk of Buenos Aires on the 9 de Julio Avenue, 1936.

Catalinas Norte is an important business complex composed of nineteen commercial office buildings and occupied by numerous leading Argentine companies, foreign subsidiaries, and diplomatic offices. It is located in the Retiro and San Nicolás neighborhoods.

Satellite view of the Greater Buenos Aires area, and the Río de la Plata.

Heavy rain and thunderstorm in Plaza San Martin. Thunderstorms are usual during the summer.

The Buenos Aires City Hall in the right corner of the entrance to the Avenida de Mayo

Metropolitan Police of Buenos Aires City

The Immigrants' Hotel, constructed in 1906, received and assisted the thousands of immigrants arriving to the city. The hotel is now a National Museum.

Villa 31, a villa miseria in Buenos Aires

The Metropolitan Cathedral is the main Catholic church in the city.

The Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, the main stock exchange and financial center of Argentina.

Headquarters of the National Bank of Argentina, the national bank and the largest in the country's banking sector.

Buenos Aires Bus, the city's tourist bus service. The official estimate is that the bus carries between 700 and 800 passengers per day, and has carried half a million passengers since its opening.

Monument to the Carta Magna and Four Regions of Argentina in the neighborhood of Palermo

The Centro Cultural Kirchner (Kirchner Cultural Center), located at the former Central Post Office, is the largest of Latin America.

Homage to Buenos Aires, a mural located at the Carlos Gardel station of the Buenos Aires Underground. It represents a typical scene from the city and several of its icons, such as singer Carlos Gardel, the Obelisco, the port, tango dancing and the Abasto market.

The interior of El Ateneo Grand Splendid, a celebrated bookstore located in the barrio of Recoleta.

Tango dancers during the World tango dance tournament.

A screening at Parque Centenario, as part of the 2011 edition of BAFICI

A fashion show at the Planetarium in 2013, as part of BAFWEEK.

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

Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, a public high school in Buenos Aires, and it is one of the most prestigious in Argentina and Latin America.

University of Buenos Aires' Law School in Recoleta

A Mitre Line Trenes Argentinos train in Retiro railway station

Map of the Greater Buenos Aires Commuter Rail Network

200 Series rolling stock at San José de Flores station, Buenos Aires Underground.

Buquebus high-speed ferries connect Buenos Aires to Uruguay

Campo Argentino de Polo, home of the Argentine Open Polo Championship, the most important global event of this discipline

La Bombonera during a night game of Copa Libertadores between Boca Juniors v. Colo Colo.

In the 2007 elections, Mauricio Macri of the Republican Proposal (PRO) party won the second-round of voting over Daniel Filmus of the Frente para la Victoria (FPV) party, taking office on 9 December 2007.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay takes part in meetings with the IMF and the World Bank, shortly after the end of the default.

Argentine debt restructuring

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Process of debt restructuring by Argentina that began on January 14, 2005, and allowed it to resume payment on 76% of the US$82 billion in sovereign bonds that defaulted in 2001 at the depth of the worst economic crisis in the nation's history.

President Néstor Kirchner and Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna, who presented the first debt restructuring offer in 2005

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

The remaining 7% of bondholders were later repaid in full, after centre-right and US-aligned leader Mauricio Macri came to power in 2015.

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.