Máximo Kirchner | |
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.jpg) Kirchner in 2018 | |
| National Deputy | |
| Assumed office 10 December 2015 | |
| Constituency | Santa Cruz (2015–2019) Buenos Aires (since 2019) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Máximo Carlos Kirchner Fernández (1977-02-16)16 February 1977 (age 48) La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Political party | Justicialist Party |
| Other political affiliations |
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| Domestic partner | Rocío García (2008–2018) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parents |
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| Relatives | Alicia Kirchner (aunt) |
Máximo Carlos Kirchner (born 16 February 1977) is an Argentine politician who has served as aNational Deputy since 2015. He is the son of two former presidents of Argentina,Néstor Kirchner andCristina Fernández de Kirchner. A member of theJusticialist Party, he is the co-founder ofLa Cámpora, a political youth organisation which supported the presidencies of his parents.
Since 2019, he has served as president of theFrente de Todosparliamentary bloc in theChamber of Deputies. In 2021, he was elected president of theBuenos Aires Province Justicialist Party.
Máximo Kirchner was born inLa Plata. He attended the República de Guatemala high school inRío Gallegos,Santa Cruz Province, where his father worked asgovernor. Later, inBuenos Aires, he studied law and journalism but did not finish either course.[1]
In 2006, alongside other emerging political leaders such asAndrés Larroque,Eduardo de Pedro,Juan Cabandié andMariano Recalde, Kirchner foundedLa Cámpora, a youth political organisation formed to group young supporters ofhis father's government. The organisation's leadership eventually passed to Larroque, who has since December 2006 acted as its secretary general.[2]
In the2015 legislative election, Kirchner ran for a seat in theNational Chamber of Deputies as the first candidate in theFront for Victory (FPV) list inSanta Cruz Province. Although the FPV came second in the election, with 46.30% of the vote Kirchner received enough votes to be elected.[3] During his 2015–2019 term, he was appointed as the opposition's representative in the Bicameral Commission for the control of thedecrees of necessity and urgency.[4] He was also appointed to the parliamentary commissions on Energy and Fuels, Mining, Impeachments, and Freedom of Expression. During his first three years in office, he introduced 23 bills to the chamber and co-signed two resolutions.[5] In that period he voted affirmatively 186 times, negatively 115 times, abstained 9 times and had 141 absences.
In the2019 legislative election, Kirchner ran for re-election inBuenos Aires Province instead of Santa Cruz.[6] He was the fifth candidate in the party list of the newly formedFrente de Todos, which received 52.64% of the vote – enough for Kirchner to be elected. Upon taking office, he became president of the unified Frente de Todosparliamentary bloc.[7] On February 1, 2022, Kirchner resigned as President of the Frente de Todos bloc over a disagreement with President Alberto Fernandez over hisgovernment's deal with theInternational Monetary Fund.[8]
In December 2021, he was elected president of the Buenos Aires Province Justicialist Party.[9]
Kirchner was formerly in a relationship with Rocío García, a dentist, with whom he had two children: Néstor Iván, born in 2013 in Buenos Aires,[10] and Emilia, born in 2016 in Río Gallegos.[11] Kirchner and García separated in 2018 after nearly 10 years together.[12] Kirchner is of German, Swiss-German, Spanish and Croatian descent. As a result of the U.S. State Department's sanctions on his mother Cristina, Máximo Kirchner is forbidden to enter American soil.[13]
| Election | Office | List | # | District | Votes | Result | Ref. | |||
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| 2015 | National Deputy | Front for Victory | 1 | Santa Cruz Province | 70,603 | 46.30% | 2nd[a] | Elected | [14] | |
| 2019 | Frente de Todos | 5 | Buenos Aires Province | 5,113,359 | 52.64% | 1st[a] | Elected | [15] | ||
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