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Special Report - Argentina: the face of post-Kirchnerismo (ISSN 17414474)
The face of post-Kirchnerismo
Mauricio Macri took office as Argentina’s new president on 10 December 2015, at the start of a four-year term in office due to run to December 2019. His election brought to an end 12 years and 7 months of kirchnerismo, the name given to the successive presidencies of the late Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007) and his wife and later widow Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007-2011 and 2011-2015). The Kirchners ruled through a political party they created within the traditions of the Peronist (Partido Justicialista) movement: the Frente para la Victoria (FPV), which could be broadly described as nationalist, populist, and left-of-centre. Macri on the other hand leads a centre-right, pro-private enterprise, party (Propuesta Republicana or PRO) within a wider coalition known as Cambiemos, which includes some smaller centrist and moderately centre-left members.
- The face of post-Kirchnerismo
- An exhausted model
- The four moments of the 2015 elections
- An overview of Macri’s first 100 days
- Lifting the cepo cambiario and tackling macroeconomic imbalances
- Settling with the holdout creditors
- Question mark over inflation and labour relations
- Prison break puts focus on security and crime policy
- The problem of corruption and justice
- Debate over press freedom and media concentration
- Low key repositioning under way