page_title: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
section_title: Post-presidency
hierarchical_section_title: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner / Post-presidency
caption_attribution_description: Español: Inauguración de la Autopista Illia.
context_page_description: Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner, sometimes referred to by her initials CFK, is an Argentine lawyer and politician who has served as the Vice President of Argentina since 2019. She also previously served as President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015 and the First Lady during her husband, Néstor Kirchner's tenure. She was the third woman to hold the Argentine vice presidency, the second woman to hold the Argentine presidency, the first directly elected female president, and the first woman re-elected to the office. Ideologically, she identifies herself as a Peronist and a social democrat, with her political approach called 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.
context_section_description: Mauricio Macri, mayor of Buenos Aires, was elected president in the 2015 presidential elections, defeating the Kirchnerite candidate Daniel Scioli in a ballotage. During the transition period, Macri reported that Kirchner was creating obstacles and problems in an attempt to undermine his government. She changed the 2016 budget, increasing spending in several areas (even the broadcasting of soccer matches), despite the huge fiscal deficit. A number of Kirchnerite officials refused to resign their offices to allow Macri to appoint his own people. Even the handover ceremony became controversial, as Kirchner refused to attend it. It was the first time since the end of military rule in 1983 that the outgoing president did not hand over power to the incoming one.
  She wrote a book called Sinceramente, which was published in 2019.
caption: Fernández de Kirchner with then-Buenos Aires Mayor and now successor Mauricio Macri in 2014
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