Máximo Kirchner

Máximo Kirchner
Kirchner in 2018
National Deputy
Incumbent
Assumed office
10 December 2015
ConstituencySanta Cruz (2015–2019)
Buenos Aires (since 2019)
Personal details
Born
Máximo Carlos Kirchner

(1977-02-16) 16 February 1977 (age 47)
La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Political partyJusticialist Party
Other political
affiliations
Domestic partnerRocío García (2008–2018)
Children2
Parents
RelativesAlicia Kirchner (aunt)

Máximo Carlos Kirchner (born 16 February 1977) is an Argentine politician who has served as a National Deputy since 2015. He is the son of two former presidents of Argentina, Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. A member of the Justicialist Party, he is the co-founder of La Cámpora, a political youth organisation which supported the presidencies of his parents.

Since 2019, he has served as president of the Frente de Todos parliamentary bloc in the Chamber of Deputies. In 2021, he was elected president of the Buenos Aires Province Justicialist Party.

Early life

Máximo Kirchner was born in La Plata. He attended the República de Guatemala high school in Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz Province, where his father worked as governor. Later, in Buenos Aires, he studied law and journalism but did not finish either course.[1]

Political career

In 2006, alongside other emerging political leaders such as Andrés Larroque, Eduardo de Pedro, Juan Cabandié and Mariano Recalde, Kirchner founded La Cámpora, a youth political organisation formed to group young supporters of his father's government. The organisation's leadership eventually passed to Larroque, who has since December 2006 acted as its secretary general.[2]

Congressman

In the 2015 legislative election, Kirchner ran for a seat in the National Chamber of Deputies as the first candidate in the Front for Victory (FPV) list in Santa 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 the decrees 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 the 2019 legislative election, Kirchner ran for re-election in Buenos Aires Province instead of Santa Cruz.[6] He was the fifth candidate in the party list of the newly formed Frente 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 Todos parliamentary bloc.[7] On February 1, 2022, Kirchner resigned as President of the Frente de Todos bloc over a disagreement with President Alberto Fernandez over his government's deal with the International Monetary Fund.[8]

In December 2021, he was elected president of the Buenos Aires Province Justicialist Party.[9]

Personal life

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.

Electoral history

Electoral history of Máximo Kirchner
Election Office List # District Votes Result Ref.
Total % P.
2015 National Deputy Front for Victory 1 Santa Cruz Province 70,603 46.30% 2nd[a] Elected [13]
2019 Frente de Todos 5 Buenos Aires Province 5,113,359 52.64% 1st[a] Elected [14]
  1. ^ a b Presented on an electoral list. The data shown represents the share of the vote the entire party/alliance received in that constituency.

References

  1. ^ "Biografía no autorizada de Máximo, el "profundizador" del modelo K". Perfil (in Spanish). 6 November 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  2. ^ "La Cámpora: un viaje al núcleo duro de la juventud K". La Nación (in Spanish). 8 March 2011. ISSN 0325-0946. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  3. ^ "Máximo es candidato a diputado y La Cámpora apunta al Congreso". Perfil (in Spanish). 21 June 2015. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
  4. ^ Helfgot, Marcelo Hugo (16 January 2018). "Máximo, star de la Bicameral de los DNU, y el plan oficialista para meter un gol de verano". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  5. ^ "Consulta de Votaciones". votaciones.hcdn.gob.ar. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  6. ^ "Provincia: cómo quedaron confeccionadas las listas a diputados". Ámbito (in Spanish). 23 June 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Máximo Kirchner será elegido mañana como presidente del bloque del Frente de Todos". Télam (in Spanish). 2 December 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  8. ^ Iñurrieta, Sebastián (1 February 2022). "FMI: Máximo Kirchner renunció a la presidencia del bloque en Diputados en rechazo al acuerdo". El Cronista (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  9. ^ "Con un llamado a la unidad, Máximo Kirchner asumió la presidencia del PJ bonaerense". Télam (in Spanish). 18 December 2021. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  10. ^ Rebossio, Alejandro (15 July 2013). "Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, abuela por primera vez". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  11. ^ "Nació Emilia, la hija de Máximo Kirchner". Clarín (in Spanish). 21 October 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  12. ^ "Tras casi 10 años en pareja, se separó Máximo Kirchner". LM Neuquén (in Spanish). 18 January 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  13. ^ "Elecciones 2015". argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). Dirección Nacional Electoral. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  14. ^ "Elecciones 2019". argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). Dirección Nacional Electoral. Retrieved 4 February 2023.