Eduardo Alberto Duhalde is an Argentine former peronist politician who served as the interim President of Argentina from January 2002 to May 2003. He also served as Vice President and Governor of Buenos Aires in the 1990s.
Néstor Carlos Kirchner Ostoić was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007. A member of the Justicialist Party,he previously served as Governor of Santa Cruz Province from 1991 to 2003,and mayor of Río Gallegos from 1987 to 1991. He later served as the first ever First Gentleman of Argentina during the first tenure of his wife,Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. By the time he died in October 2010,he was First Gentlemen from 2007,President of the Justicialist Party and National Deputy from 2009,and Secretary General of UNASUR from May 2010. Ideologically,he identified himself as a Peronist and a progressive,with his political approach called Kirchnerism.
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá is an Argentine Peronist politician. Born in a family that was highly influential in the history of the San Luis Province,he became the province's governor in 1983,after the end of the National Reorganization Process military dictatorship. He remained governor up to 2001,being re-elected in successive elections.
The Justicialist Party is a major political party in Argentina,and the largest branch within Peronism.
Hermes Juan Binner was an Argentine physician and politician who served as Governor of Santa Fe from 2007 to 2011. Binner was the first Socialist to serve as governor of an Argentine province,and the first non-Peronist to rule Santa Fe since the last transition to democracy in 1983.
Felipe Solá is an Argentine agricultural engineer and politician. He previously served as Governor of Buenos Aires Province,from 2002 to 2007,and as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship under President Alberto Fernández,from 2019 to 2021.
Aníbal Domingo Fernández is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician,lawyer,and certified public accountant. Throughout his career,he has remained a close ally to the former Presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Between 2021 and 2023,he served as Argentina's Minister of Security in the cabinet of President Alberto Fernández.
Jorge Enrique Taiana is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician who served as the country's Minister of Defense from 2021 to 2023. Taiana previously served as Foreign Minister in the administrations of President Néstor Kirchner and his successor,Cristina Fernández de Kirchner,from 2005 to 2010,and as a National Senator for Buenos Aires from 2019 to 2021.
Argentina held national presidential and legislative elections on Sunday,28 October 2007,and elections for provincial governors took place on staggered dates throughout the year. For the national elections,each of the 23 provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires are considered electoral districts. Voter turnout was 76.2%. Buenos Aires Province Senator and First Lady Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of the Front for Victory won the election by 45.28% of votes against Elisa Carrióof Civic Coalition ARI,making her the second female president of Argentina and the first female president to be directly elected. She broke the 40 percent barrier and won in the first round. Elisa Carriówon in the city of Buenos Aires and came second with more than 20 percent of the votes. Third was Roberto Lavagna,who won in Córdoba.
Kirchnerism is an Argentine political movement based on populist ideals formed by the supporters of spouses Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner,who consecutively served as Presidents of Argentina. Although considered a branch of Peronism,it is opposed by some factions of Peronists and generally considered to fall into the category of left-wing populism.
Martín Lousteau is an Argentine economist and politician of the Radical Civic Union (UCR). He is a National Senator for the City of Buenos Aires. Since 2023,he has been President of the UCR National Committee.
Sergio Tomás Massa is an Argentine politician who served as Minister of Economy from 2022 to 2023. From 2019 to 2022,he was the National Deputy for the centre-left coalition Frente de Todos,elected in Buenos Aires Province,and the President of the Chamber of Deputies.
Aníbal Florencio Randazzo in an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He was Minister of the Interior and Transport during the presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner,from 2007 to 2015. An ally of Kirchner's during most of his political career,Randazzo fell out with her and ran against her for a seat in the Senate in 2017.
Margarita Stolbizer is an Argentine lawyer and politician. Originally a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR),she founded her own party,Generation for a National Encounter (GEN) in 2007. She has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Argentina on three occasions:from 1997 to 2005,from 2009 to 2017,and since 2021.
Mercedes Marcódel Pont is an Argentine economist and politician who was President of the Central Bank of Argentina. She has also served as a member of the National Chamber of Deputies,as head of the Federal Public Income Administration,and as Secretary of Strategic Affairs in the Presidency of Argentina under Alberto Fernandez.
The Presidency of Néstor Kirchner began on 25 May 2003,when Néstor Kirchner became President of Argentina. He was the Governor of Santa Cruz during the 2003 general election,he was elected second to Carlos Menem but became president when Menem refused to go for a required runoff election. In elections of October 2007,he declined for a second term and was later succeeded by his wife,Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as President.
Claudio Omar Moroni is an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the country's Minister of Labour,Employment and Social Security from 10 December 2019 to 13 October 2022,in the cabinet of President Alberto Fernández.
Nicolás Alfredo Trotta is an Argentine politician. He was Argentina's Minister of Education from 10 December 2019 to 20 September 2021,in the cabinet of President Alberto Fernández.
New Leadership is a minor political party in Argentina,founded in 1996 by Gustavo Béliz,a former member of the Justicialist Party. The party was founded to compete in the 1996 election in Buenos Aires,in which Béliz was candidate to Chief of Government (mayor). Following moderate successes in Buenos Aires,the party joined the Front for Victory of President Néstor Kirchner,and Béliz was Kirchner's Justice Minister until 2004,when he denounced the government and left Argentina to work in the Inter-American Development Bank in the United States.
Raquel Cecilia Kismer de Olmos,better known as Kelly Olmos,is an Argentine economist and politician who served as the country's Minister of Labour,Employment and Social Security from 2022 to 2023,in the cabinet of President Alberto Fernández.
