Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was re-admitted to hospital and had successful surgery on 8 October 2013 to remove blood from under a membrane covering her brain. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner (; born February 19, 1953), sometimes referred to by her initials CFK, is an Argentine politician who served as President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015. She was the second woman to serve as President of Argentina, the first directly elected female president and the first woman re-elected to the office. Ideologically a Peronist and social democrat, she was a member of the Justicialist Party, with her political approach
Presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner 2009 revealed an increase in their personal assets by 7 times, since Néstor Kirchner's 2003 inaugural. The increase was partly the product of land deals in El Calafate, a scenic, Santa Cruz Province town where the couple has long vacationed and own property (including of land and two hotels). On October 17, 2009, President Cristina Fernández proposed the compulsory submission of DNA samples in cases related to crimes against humanity, in a move lauded by the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, but excoriated by opposition figures as a political move against Clarín Media Group Chairperson Ernestina Herrera de Noble,