Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
| Cristina Fernández de Kirchner | |
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| President of Argentina | |
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In office 10 December 2007 – 9 December 2015 |
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| Vice President |
Julio Cobos Amado Boudou |
| Preceded by | Néstor Kirchner |
| Succeeded by | Mauricio Macri |
| First Lady of Argentina | |
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In role 25 May 2003 – 10 December 2007 |
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| President | Néstor Kirchner |
| Preceded by | Hilda de Duhalde |
| Succeeded by |
Néstor Kirchner as First Gentleman |
| National Senator of Argentina | |
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In office 10 December 2005 – 28 November 2007 |
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| Constituency | Buenos Aires |
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In office 10 December 2001 – 9 December 2005 |
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| Constituency | Santa Cruz |
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In office 10 December 1995 – 3 December 1997 |
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| Constituency | Santa Cruz |
| National Deputy of Argentina | |
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In office 10 December 1997 – 9 December 2001 |
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| Constituency | Santa Cruz |
| Personal details | |
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Cristina Elisabet Fernández 19 February 1953 La Plata, Argentina |
| Political party | Justicialist |
| Other political affiliations |
Front for Victory (2003–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Néstor Kirchner (m. 1975; d. 2010) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | National University of La Plata |
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Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner (Spanish pronunciation: [kɾisˈtina elisaˈβet ferˈnandes ðe ˈkiɾʃneɾ]; born 19 February 1953), sometimes referred to by her initials CFK, is an Argentine lawyer and politician, who served as President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015. She was the second woman to serve as President of Argentina, the first directly elected female president, and the first woman re-elected to the office. Ideologically a Peronist and social democrat, she was a member of the Justicialist Party, with her political approach being characterised as Kirchnerism.
Born in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, she studied law at the University of La Plata, and moved to Patagonia with her husband Néstor Kirchner upon graduation. She was elected to the provincial legislature; her husband was elected mayor of Río Gallegos. She was elected national senator in 1995, and had a controversial tenure, while her husband was elected governor of Santa Cruz Province. In 1994, she was also elected to the constituent assembly that amended the Constitution of Argentina. She was the First Lady from 2003 to 2007 after Néstor Kirchner was elected president.
Néstor Kirchner did not run for reelection. Instead, Cristina Kirchner was the candidate for the Front for Victory party, becoming president in the 2007 presidential election. Her first term of office started with a conflict with the agricultural sector, and her proposed taxation system was rejected. After this she nationalized private pension funds, and fired the president of the Central Bank. The price of public services remained subsidised, the country lost its self-supply of energy, and she renationalized energy firm YPF as a result. The country fell into sovereign default in 2014. The country had good relations with other South American nations, and a rocky one with the United States and the United Kingdom. She also continued her husband's human rights policies, and had a rocky relationship with the press. Néstor Kirchner died in 2010, and Cristina Kirchner was reelected in 2011. She established currency controls during her second term. Several corruption scandals took place, and she faced several demonstrations against her rule. Her defeat in the 2013 midterm elections prevented an attempt to amend the constitution to allow the president to run for a third term. Governor Daniel Scioli was appointed as the candidate for the 2015 presidential elections. Scioli was defeated by Mayor Mauricio Macri in a ballotage.
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