Máximo Kirchner province, with his list coming second by 3.3%. Máximo Kirchner Máximo Carlos Kirchner (born February 16, 1977) is an Argentine politician, National Deputy for Santa Cruz Province. His parents were the presidents of Argentina, Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández. Máximo Kirchner was born in La Plata. He attended high school República de Guatemala in Rio Gallegos, where his father worked as governor of the province of Santa Cruz. In Buenos Aires, he studied law and journalism but did not finish either courses. In 2009, he founded La Cámpora, a juvenile political agrupation of supporters of Cristina Fernández government. In 2015,
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner confided in him that she had a bipolar disorder, while she was having a violent outburst. During the United States diplomatic cables leak it was revealed that Hillary Clinton questioned Kirchner's mental health and asked the US embassy whether she was receiving treatment or not; she later apologized to Kirchner for those leaks. Kirchner said in her book "La Presidenta" that it was all a misunderstanding; it is her sister who suffers from bipolar disorder. On 27 December 2011, presidential spokesman Alfredo Scoccimaro announced that Kirchner had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer on 22 December and that she would undergo