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The following lists events that happened in Argentina in 2017.
Mauricio Macri is an Argentine businessman and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019. He has been the leader of the Republican Proposal (PRO) party since its founding in 2005. He previously served as 5th Chief of Government of Buenos Aires from 2007 to 2015, and was a member of the Chamber of Deputies representing Buenos Aires from 2005 to 2007. Ideologically, he identifies himself as a liberal and conservative on the Argentine centre-right.
Daniel Osvaldo Scioli is an Argentine politician, businessman and former sportsman. He currently serves as the Secretary of Tourism, Environment and Sports since January 2024. He was Vice President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007 and Governor of Buenos Aires Province from 2007 to 2015. From September 2022 to January 2024 he was Argentina's ambassador to Brazil.
Republican Proposal is a right-wing political party in Argentina. It is usually referred to by its abbreviation, PRO. PRO was formed as an electoral alliance in 2005, but was transformed into a national party in 2010. It is the major component of the Juntos por el Cambio coalition, and its leader is former Argentine president Mauricio Macri, who is the party's president since May 2024.
The Presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner began on 10 December 2007, when she became President of Argentina. She was an Argentine Senator for the Buenos Aires Province at the time of her victory in the 2007 Presidential election. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner became the second female president of Argentina, and the first one directly elected as such. In elections of November 2015, she was succeeded by Mauricio Macri as President.
María Eugenia Vidal is an Argentine politician who served as Governor of the Buenos Aires Province, being the first woman in the office, and the first non-Peronist since 1987. A member of Republican Proposal (PRO), she previously served as Social Development minister of the City of Buenos Aires, and in 2011 she was elected deputy mayor of the city under Mauricio Macri. Since 2021, she has been a National Deputy for the Juntos por el Cambio coalition.
General elections were held in Argentina on 25 October 2015 to elect the President and National Congress, and followed primary elections which were held on 9 August 2015. A second round of voting between the two leading candidates took place on 22 November, after surprisingly close results forced a runoff. On the first runoff voting ever held for an Argentine Presidential Election, Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri narrowly defeated Front for Victory candidate and Buenos Aires Province Governor Daniel Scioli with 51.34% of votes. Macri's vote count of nearly 13 million votes made it the highest number of votes any candidate has ever received in Argentinian history, until Javier Milei obtained over 14 million votes in the second round of the 2023 presidential election. He took office on 10 December, making him the first freely elected president in almost a century who was not either a Radical or a Peronist.
Broad Front UNEN was an center-left political coalition in Argentina. It arose through an alliance between Radical Civic Union, Civic Coalition ARI, Proyecto Sur, Freemen of the South Movement, Socialist Party, Authentic Socialist Party, and GEN.
The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Argentina.
Juntos por el Cambio is a political coalition in Argentina. A liberal coalition, it was created in 2015 as Cambiemos, and renamed in 2019. It is composed of Republican Proposal, Radical Civic Union, Civic Coalition ARI and United Republicans.
On the 25 October elections numerous provinces also elected governors, with the new ones beginning their terms on 10 December 2015. These provinces were Buenos Aires province, Catamarca, Chubut, Entre Ríos, Formosa, Jujuy, La Pampa, Misiones, San Juan, San Luis and Santa Cruz, encompassing 11 of the country's 23 provinces. The other provinces elected governors in different days of 2015; the only exceptions were Corrientes and Santiago del Estero whose governors' terms were not due to finish in 2015.
Daniel Gollán is an Argentine cardiologist and politician. He served as Health Minister of Argentina for a brief period during the presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in 2015, and as Health Minister of Buenos Aires Province from 2019 to 2021. Since 2021, he has been a National Deputy.
The following lists events that happened in Argentina in 2018.
The following lists events that happened or will happen in Argentina in 2019.
Sinceramente is the first book written by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, former President of Argentina and former Vice President. She announced the publication of the book by surprise on April 23, 2019 on her Twitter account. Fernández de Kirchner stated that the book "is not autobiographical nor is it an enumeration of personal or political achievements, it is a look and a retrospective reflection to unravel some facts and chapters of recent history and how they have impacted the lives of Argentines and mine as well."
The Frente de Todos was a centre-left political coalition of political parties in Argentina formed to support President Alberto Fernández and Vice President Cristina Kirchner.
Events in the year 2020 in Argentina.
Jorge Horacio Ferraresi is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician and engineer who currently serves as intendente (mayor) of Avellaneda, a partido in the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area. He served uninterruptedly from 2009 to 2020, when he was appointed as Minister of Territorial Development and Habitat in the cabinet of President Alberto Fernández, and later resumed the position in 2022.
The Victory Party is a minor Kirchnerist political party in Argentina founded in 2003 by Néstor Kirchner and Diana Conti to group independent sectors of the Kirchnerist coalition. The party now forms part of the Unión por la Patria, the former ruling coalition supporting then- President Alberto Fernández and supported Sergio Massa's presidential campaign. The party was a founding member of the similarly named Front for Victory, the coalition that led Néstor Kirchner to the presidency in the 2003 election.
Silvina Aída Batakis is an Argentine economist and politician. She currently works as the Minister of Habitat and Urban Development of Buenos Aires Province. She was the President of the Banco de la Nación Argentina from 2022 to 2023, she also served as the Minister of Economy for a brief period in 2022. Previously, she served as Secretary of Provinces in the Ministry of the Interior and as economy minister of Buenos Aires Province under Governor Daniel Scioli from 2011 to 2015.
The Nahir Galarza case was an Argentine judicial process, officially called "Galarza, Nahir Mariana s/homicidio doblemente agravado", in which 19-year-old Nahir Mariana Galarza was convicted of murdering her 20-year-old boyfriend Fernando Pastorizzo, at dawn 29 December 2017, in the city of Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos, Argentina, where both lived. The case was widely covered by both national and international media.