page_title: Argentina presidential transition
hierarchical_section_title: Argentina presidential transition
caption_attribution_description: Español: En una histórica ceremonia, Alberto Fernández juró como presidente de la Nación y recibió los atributos de mando de manos de su antecesor, Mauricio Macri. Fue ante la Asamblea Legislativa que sesionó, a partir de las 11:15, en el recinto de la Cámara de Diputados de la Nación. También prestó juramento Cristina Fernández de Kirchner como Vicepresidenta de la Nación.
context_page_description: Argentina has faced several presidential transitions since the return of democracy in 1983.
  Reynaldo Bignone, the last military dictator of the National Reorganization Process, gave the presidential sash and staff to the elected president Raúl Alfonsín on December 10, 1983. The ceremony took place at the Casa Rosada.
  A big economic crisis caused by an hyperinflation forces Alfonsín to resign during the transition. Carlos Menem, who was scheduled to take office on December 10, 1989, does so on July 8. The ceremony took place in the Casa Rosada. Menem was reelected in 1995, and only made the oath of office at the Congress, already wearing the sash and staff.
  Fernando de la Rúa became president in 1999. He made the oath of office in the Congress, and then moved to the Casa Rosada, where Menem gave him the sash and the staff.
  De la Rúa resigned in 2001, two years before ending his term, amid a huge economic crisis. The Congress appointed Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, and then Eduardo Duhalde when Rodríguez Saá resigned. The next elected president was Néstor Kirchner, in 2003. The ceremony took place completely in the Congress, as Duhalde had been appointed by it.
context_section_description: Argentina has faced several presidential transitions since the return of democracy in 1983.
  Reynaldo Bignone, the last military dictator of the National Reorganization Process, gave the presidential sash and staff to the elected president Raúl Alfonsín on December 10, 1983. The ceremony took place at the Casa Rosada.
  A big economic crisis caused by an hyperinflation forces Alfonsín to resign during the transition. Carlos Menem, who was scheduled to take office on December 10, 1989, does so on July 8. The ceremony took place in the Casa Rosada. Menem was reelected in 1995, and only made the oath of office at the Congress, already wearing the sash and staff.
  Fernando de la Rúa became president in 1999. He made the oath of office in the Congress, and then moved to the Casa Rosada, where Menem gave him the sash and the staff.
  De la Rúa resigned in 2001, two years before ending his term, amid a huge economic crisis. The Congress appointed Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, and then Eduardo Duhalde when Rodríguez Saá resigned. The next elected president was Néstor Kirchner, in 2003. The ceremony took place completely in the Congress, as Duhalde had been appointed by it.
  Néstor Kirchner refused to run for a re-election, and his wife Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was elected president in 2007. They returned to the standard system: oath of office in the Congress, and exchange of sash and staff in the Casa Rosada. Néstor died in 2010 and Cristina was reelected the following year. The ceremony took place completely in the Congress. She received the sash and staff from her daughter Florencia Kirchner, who did not held any political office. She made the oath of office in the name of God, the nation and "him", in reference to the late Kirchner.
  Mauricio Macri was elected president in 2015. Cristina Kirchner wanted to make the ceremony in the Congress, and Macri in the Casa Rosada. Ultimately, Cristina Kirchner refused to take part in the ceremony, at either place.
caption: President-elect Alberto Fernández receives the presidential sash and staff from outgoing president Mauricio Macri in 2019.
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