Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

**Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner** (born 19 February 1953), also called **Cristina Fernández**, **CFK** or **Cristina Kirchner**, is an Argentine attorney and politician. She was the 37th Vice President of Argentina from 2019 to 2023. She was previously the 55th President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015. She was born in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province. She is the daughter of Eduardo Fernandez ( of Spanish descent) a bus driver, and Ofelia Esther Wilhelm (of German descent). She is a lawyer and she was married to former Argentinian president Néstor Kirchner from 1975 until his death in 2010.

She was elected president in October 2007. She was re-elected to a second term in October 2011.

## Corruption trial

On 30 September 2020, the federal criminal cassation court confirmed the corruption trials of Fernández de Kirchner, ruling the former president's objections to be inadmissible. After analyzing the claims of the defendants in the case for the never-ratified Memorandum with Iran, on 7 October 2021, the Federal Oral Court 8 declared the case null and void. The judges concluded that there was no crime in the signing of the agreement with Iran, and declared a judicial dismissal of Cristina Kirchner and the other defendants. On 6 December 2022, she was sentenced to six years in prison and a lifetime ban from holding public office for corruption, and has stated her intention to appeal the verdict. On November 13, 2024, the Court of Cassation confirmed the six-year prison sentence handed down to Cristina Kirchner for “fraud” and “corruption”.

## Assassination attempt in 2022

On September 1, 2022, after 9:00 p.m., the Brazilian Fernando Andres Sabag Montiel attempted to assassinate Cristina Kirchner outside her home in the Recoleta neighborhood. He pointed a 380-caliber Bersa pistol at his head and fired the shot but the bullet did not come out, and he was subdued by security personnel. The Vice President of Argentina was unharmed. It happened when she was returning to her home and signing books.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
- **image**: Cfksenado2021 (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Fernández in 2021
- **office**: 37th Vice President of Argentina
- **president**: Alberto Fernández
- **term start**: 10 December 2019
- **term end**: 10 December 2023
- **predecessor**: Gabriela Michetti
- **successor**: Victoria Villarruel
- **office1**: 55th President of Argentina
- **vicepresident1**: Julio Cobos (2007-2011)
Amado Boudou (2011-2015)
- **term start1**: 10 December 2007
- **term end1**: 10 December 2015
- **predecessor1**: Néstor Kirchner
- **successor1**: Mauricio Macri
- **office2**: First Ladies and Gentlemen of Argentina, First Lady of Argentina
- **president2**: Néstor Kirchner
- **term label2**: In role
- **term start2**: 25 May 2003
- **term end2**: 10 December 2007
- **predecessor2**: Hilda González de Duhalde, Hilda de Duhalde
- **successor2**: Néstor Kirchner
(First Gentleman)
- **office3**: Member of the Argentine Senate, Senate of Argentina
- **term start3**: 10 December 2017
- **term end3**: 10 December 2019
- **constituency3**: Buenos Aires Province, Buenos Aires
- **term start4**: 10 December 2005
- **term end4**: 28 November 2007
- **constituency4**: Buenos Aires Province, Buenos Aires
- **term start5**: 10 December 2001
- **term end5**: 9 December 2005
- **constituency5**: Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, Santa Cruz
- **term start6**: 10 December 1995
- **term end6**: 3 December 1997
- **constituency6**: Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, Santa Cruz
- **office7**: Member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, Chamber of Deputies of Argentina
- **term start7**: 10 December 1997
- **term end7**: 9 December 2001
- **constituency7**: Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, Santa Cruz
- **birth name**: Cristina Elisabet Fernández
- **birth place**: Tolosa, Buenos Aires, Tolosa, La Plata, Argentina
- **party**: Justicialist Party, Justicialist
- **otherparty**: Front for Victory (2003–2017)
Citizen's Unity (2017–2019) Frente de Todos (2019 coalition) (2019-present)
- **children**: 2, including Máximo Kirchner, Máximo
- **alma mater**: National University of La Plata
- **signature**: CF SIGNATURE.svg