Presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner The Presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner began on December 10, 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 (Isabel Martínez de Perón was elected as vice president, and became president after the death of Juan Domingo Perón). In elections of November 2015 Kirchner was succeeded as President by Mauricio Macri. With Fernández leading all
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner singing the Argentine national anthem. The city police estimated that the demonstration was attended by 400,000 people. Several scandals took place during the Kirchner administration. The first involved the detention of Venezuelan-American businessman Antonini Wilson in an airport after being found with a suitcase filled with $800,000. This money was illegally provided by Petróleos de Venezuela, the state oil company, to be used for Kirchner's 2007 general election campaign. Details of the case were explained by businessman Carlos Kauffmann and lawyer Moisés Maiónica, who pleaded guilty. The FPV financing of the 2007 elections caused another scandal years later. Three pharmaceutical