Nationalization of oil supplies In April 2010, Argentina's president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner introduced a bill on April 16, 2012, for the expropriation of YPF, the nation's largest energy firm. The state would purchase a 51% share, with the national government controlling 51% of this package and ten provincial governments receiving the remaining 49%. Investment in exploration at YPF as a percentage of profits had been far below those in most other Repsol subsidiaries, and declines in output at the firm represented 54% of the nation's lost oil production and 97% in the case of natural gas. Market analysts and Repsol blamed the decline
Public image of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of activity. Martín Bossi parodied Cristina Kirchner in 2009 at "Gran Cuñado" (), which featured parodies of Argentine politicians. The show itself was a parody of the "Big Brother" reality show Bossi's masks were prepared by Andrés Parrilla and the scripts written by Nik and Pablo Semmartín. Bossio commented that he watched videos of Kirchner to prepare and that the main trait of the parody character, was that the character's face and words would suggest completely different things. Minister Anibal Fernandez criticized this parody, arguing that, "In some ways I think there were excesses, it should be regulated because it