# Inauguration of Alberto Fernández

The inauguration of Alberto Fernández as the 58th president of Argentina took place on 10 December 2019. Fernández wished for the bulk of the ceremony, including the concession of the presidential symbols, to take place in the Congressional Palace (as in the previous inaugurations of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner), rather than in the Casa Rosada, as it was the case in 2015. In the end the outgoing president, Mauricio Macri reluctantly approved. As planned, he was sworn in at the Chamber of Deputies Hall of the National Congress, before outgoing President Mauricio Macri, outgoing Vice President Gabriela Michetti and Vice President-elect Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who also assumed as Vice President.
During a 1 hour-long speech, President Alberto Fernández broadly described the state of affairs in Argentina and vowed to revive growth to escape from "virtual default". Once in the Casa Rosada, Fernández and Felipe Solá (Foreign Minister-designate), met with the international guests in the afternoon. Later in the afternoon, Fernández administered the oath of office to the ministers of the cabinet.
Prior to the inauguration, the fences in the Plaza de Mayo had been removed. Peronist sympathizers gathered around the Plaza de Mayo and the Congress to celebrate the presidential inauguration. In the former, a music festival took place throughout the afternoon. At the end, President Fernández spoke to the crowd gathered there. The event was preceded by the Macri's own inauguration on 10 December 2015 and succeeded by the Javier Milei's inauguration on 10 December 2023.

## International attendees

Attendees listed in the order in which they were received by Fernández and Solá.

### Sovereign states

| Country | Dignitary | Title |
| Paraguay | Mario Abdo Benítez | President |
| Uruguay | Tabaré Vázquez | President |
| Uruguay | Luis Lacalle Pou | President-elect |
| Cuba | Miguel Díaz Canel | President |
| Serbia | Ana Brnabić | Prime Minister |
| Suriname | Ashwin Adhin | Vice-President |
| Brazil | Hamilton Mourão | Vice-President |
| Venezuela | Jorge Rodríguez | Minister of the Popular Power for Communication and Information |
| Spain | Pilar Llop Cuenca | President of the Senate |
| Panama | Martín Torrijos Espino | Ex-president |
| China | Arken Imirbaki | Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress |
| Holy See | Martin Krebs | Nuncio to Uruguay |
| Peru | Vicente Zeballos Salinas | President of the Council of Ministers |
| Georgia | Natia Surava | Acting Head of the Presidential Administration |
| Sovereign Order of Malta | José María Coello de Portugal y Martínez del Peral | Member of the Council of Government |
| Qatar | Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari | Minister of State |
| Uruguay | Lucía Topolansky | Vice-President |
| Uruguay | José Mujica | Ex-President |
| Ecuador | Rafael Correa Delgado | Ex-President |
| Paraguay | Fernando Lugo | Ex-President |
| Brazil | Celso Amorim | Ex-Foreign Minister |
| Portugal | Augusto Santos Silva | Foreign Minister |
| Nicaragua | Denis Ronaldo Moncada Colindres | Foreign Minister |
| United States | Alex Azar II | Secretary of Health and Human Services |
| Colombia | José Manuel Restrepo Abondano | Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism |
| France | Roxana Maracineanu | Sports Minister |
| Mexico | Olga Sánchez Cordero | Secretary of the Interior |
| Netherlands | Winnie Sorgdrager | Minister of State |
| El Salvador | Ana Geraldine Béneke Castaneda | Foreign Vice-Minister |
| Ukraine | Sergiy Kyslytsya | Foreign Vice-Minister |
| Dominican Republic | Marjorie Espinosa | Foreign Vice-Minister |
| Italy | Ricardo Merlo | Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs |
| Armenia | Grigor Hovhannissian | Foreign Vice-Minister |
| Chile | Carolina Valdivia Torres | Substitute Foreign Minister |
| United Kingdom | Gloria Dorothy Hooper, Baroness Hooper | Member of the House of Lords |
| Japan | Kozo Yamamoto | Member of Parliament |
| Canada | Rosa Galvez | Senator |
| Russia | Konstantin Kosachev | Senator |

### International organizations

| Organization | Representative | Title |
| International Labour Organization | Guy Ryder | Director-General |
| Latin American Integration Association | Alejandro de la Peña Navarrete | Secretary-General |
| Inter American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture | Manuel Otero | Director-General |
| Latin-American Energy Organization | Alfonso Blanco Bonilla | Secretary-General |
| Plata Basin Financial Development Fund | Juan Notaro Fraga | Executive President |
| UNECLAC | Alicia Bárcena Ibarra | Executive Secretary |
| Mercosur Parliament | Daniel Caggiani | President |
| Ibero-American General Secretariat | Rebeca Grynspan | Secretary-General |
| Antarctic Treaty Secretariat | Albert Lluberas | Executive Secretary |
| World Tourism Organization | Zurab Pololikashvili | Secretary General |
| ABACC | Elena Maceiras | Secretary-General |