Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentine lawyer and politician, President of Argentina and Vice President of Argentina

Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner is an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the 56th President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015, and later as the 37th Vice President of Argentina under President Alberto Fernández from 2019 to 2023. The widow of Néstor Kirchner, she was also First Lady during his presidency from 2003 to 2007. She was the second female president of Argentina and the first to be directly elected to office. Ideologically self-identified as a Peronist and a progressive, her political approach is called Kirchnerism. Since 2024, she has been the president of the Justicialist Party, the main opposition party to incumbent President Javier Milei.

The president of Argentina, officially known as the president of the Argentine Nation, is both head of state and head of government of Argentina. Under the national constitution, the president is also the chief executive of the federal government and commander-in-chief of the armed forces.

The vice president of Argentina, officially known as the vice president of the Argentine Nation, is the second highest political position in Argentina, and first in the line of succession to the president of Argentina.

February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 315 days remain until the end of the year.