Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was bornon 19 February 1953 in La Plata, Argentine, is Former President of Argentina. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015. She was the second woman to serve as President of Argentina, and the first directly elected female president. Her husband Néstor Kirchner had served as president from 2003 to 2007, and she succeeded him to the post when he left the office. A graduate of the National University of La Plata, she embarked on a legal career. Even though she sympathized with the Peronist Youth during her university studies, she was not engaged in any notable political activism as a young woman. She ventured into politics in the late 1980s when she was elected to the Santa Cruz Provincial Legislature in 1989. Her political career thrived in the 1990s and she was elected to represent Santa Cruz in the Senate. During this time her husband’s political career was also on the rise and she helped him in his successful campaign for the presidency in 2003. As the First Lady of the country, she also worked as an itinerant ambassador for the government. Néstor Kirchner refused to run for re-election in 2007 and proposed Cristina Kirchner instead who successfully won the presidential election and assumed office in December 2007.
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Prohibited by the constitution from running for another term in the 2015 presidential election, she stepped down from the office on 10 December 2015
She stood for re-election in 2011 and was once again successful
In a bid to build good relations with other Latin American countries, she made a historic trip to Peru in March 2010 and attended the bicentenary of the independence celebrations in Venezuela in April
As the president she launched a universal child benefit plan in October 2009 as a way to fight poverty with the goal of reaching approximately five million children and youths
She introduced a new sliding-scale taxation system for agricultural exports, effectively raising levies on soybean exports from 35% to 44% in 2008
She began a determined campaign and emerged successful to be sworn in as the President of Argentina on 10 December 2007
Her husband was successfully installed the President of Argentina in May 2003
She was elected to represent Santa Cruz in the Senate in 1995 and to the Chamber of Deputies in 1997
She was elected to the Santa Cruz Provincial Legislature in 1989, a position to which she was re-elected in 1993
Kirchner was a provincial delegate to the Justicialist (Peronist) Party (PJ) convention in 1985
Democracy in Argentina was restored in 1983 and Cristina began her political career later the same decade
The then-president Isabel Peron was deposed by the 1976 Argentine coup d'état and the military junta seized control of Argentina
It was here that she met Néstor Kirchner who she would later marry in 1975
The 1970s was a period of political chaos in Argentina
Cristina Elisabet Fernández was born on 19 February 1953 in La Plata, Argentina, to Eduardo Fernandez, a bus driver, and Ofelia Esther Wilhelm
