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 president, and automatically assumed the presidency on his death. The transition from Néstor Kirchner to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was also the first time a democratic head of state was replaced by their spouse without the death of either. He remained highly influential during his wife's term, supervising the economy and leading the PJ. Their marriage has been compared with those of Juan and Eva Perón and Bill and Hillary Clinton. Media observers suspected that Mr. Kirchner stepped down as president to circumvent the term limit, swapping roles with his wife. When Néstor Kirchner refused to run for re-election in