Argentina’s President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner assumed office on December 10 2007. In the first round election, she won an overwhelming majority of votes against her closet rival, avoiding the need for a customary runoff election.  She replaced her husband, Nestor Kirchner, as president of Argentina.  She became the second female President of Argentina after Isabel Peron, but was the first to be democratically elected. Prior to her ascendency to president, Cristina was a very popular Senator for the Buenos Aires Province. Kirchner started her political career in the Peronist Youth movement of the Justicialist Party in the 1970s. She is
also a lawyer and mother of two.