Máximo Kirchner 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, he was elected National Deputy for Santa Cruz
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner 2007 and proposed Cristina Kirchner instead, it was rumored that the couple might attempt to run for the presidency in alternate elections, to circumvent the constitutional limit of a single re-election. The death of Néstor Kirchner in 2010 derailed such a plan. She had a low positive image, below 30%. On 21 June 2011, Cristina Kirchner announced she would run for a second term as president. A few days later, she announced that her economic minister Amado Boudou would run for vice-president on her ticket. This selection was an unexpected one, as Boudou usually acted like a rock star instead