Alberto Ángel Fernández

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Alberto Ángel Fernández, 2019

Alberto Ángel Fernández (born April 2, 1959 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine lawyer and politician of the Peronist Party . He has been the country's president since December 10, 2019 .

Fernández was head of cabinet from 2003 to 2008 under Presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner . As a candidate for the largely Peronist electoral alliance Frente de Todos , he won the 2019 presidential election .

Life

Fernández was born in Buenos Aires on April 2, 1959. He is a lawyer and lecturer ( profesor adjunto ) at the law faculty of the Universidad de Buenos Aires .

Political career

Beginnings and first offices

Alberto Fernández was initially a member of the Judicialist Party . In 1995 he joined an internal party opposition to the later President Eduardo Duhalde against the then President Carlos Menem . He also supported Duhalde's unsuccessful presidential candidacy in 1999.

In 2000, he took up his first political office as a provincial representative of Buenos Aires for the Acción por la República party of the former Minister of Economics, Domingo Cavallo .

Time as head of cabinet and opposition years

In 2003, President Néstor Kirchner ( Judicialist Party ) appointed him head of cabinet. He also held this post from 2007 under his successor and wife, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. After arguments with President Kirchner over tax issues in the agricultural sector, he resigned as head of cabinet on July 23, 2008. Then he founded his own party called PARTE.

In 2013 he joined the Peronist movement Frente Renovador by Sergio Massa , which was considered an internal opposition to the political movement around President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

Presidential elections 2019

On May 18, 2019, the former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner stated that, contrary to expectations, she did not want to run as a presidential candidate in the 2019 elections herself , but as a vice-presidential candidate in the electoral alliance Frente de Todos under the candidate Fernández. The duo already won the primaries clearly and emerged victorious in the first round of the presidential election.

Presidency

Fernández took office as Argentine President on December 10, 2019. He heads the Fernández cabinet .

Political assessment

On the occasion of his presidential candidacy in 2019, Fernández's political orientation was compared with that of Néstor Kirchner . The electoral alliance is described as left or center-left.

After his resignation as head of cabinet of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, his relationship with this politician was considered strained.

Fernández is said to have good relations with the Clarín newspaper , one of the most popular media in Argentina.

Web links

Commons : Alberto Ángel Fernández  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Notimérica: ¿Quién es Alberto Fernández, el candidato del kirchnerismo a la Presidencia de Argentina? May 20, 2019, accessed June 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Felipe Yapur: Quién es Alberto Fernández. May 19, 2019, accessed June 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Redacción: Quién es Alberto Fernández, el candidato a la presidencia de Argentina que irá en la fórmula con Cristina Kirchner . May 18, 2019 ( bbc.com [accessed June 22, 2019]).
  4. ↑ a b c d La Voz: Quién es Alberto Fernández, el candidato a Presidente que acompañará a Cristina Fernández. Retrieved June 22, 2019 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ La Nación: Sergio Massa se reunió con sus aliados para diseñar su estrategia electoral "peronista" y "modernista". June 24, 2013, accessed June 22, 2019 (Spanish).
  6. ↑ a b Uki Goñi: Argentina election: Macri out as Cristina Fernández de Kirchner returns to office as VP . In: The Guardian . October 28, 2019, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed October 28, 2019]).
  7. ^ Lisa Pausch: Argentina: Alberto Fernández excludes regulation of the economy. August 21, 2019, accessed August 26, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Handelsblatt: Alberto Fernández: Will this man be Argentina's new president? Retrieved August 26, 2019 .
predecessor Office successor
Mauricio Macri President of Argentina
2019–
personal data
SURNAME Fernández, Alberto Ángel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fernández, Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires