A second round of voting between the two leading candidates took place on 22 November, after surprisingly close results forced a runoff. General elections were held in Argentina on 25 October 2015 to elect the President and National Congress, and followed primary elections which were held on 9 August 2015. In 2018, she was also indicted for corruption on charges alleging that her administration had accepted bribes in exchange for public works contracts. In 2017, an arrest warrant issued by Claudio Bonadio for Fernández de Kirchner charged her with " treason", but due to her parliamentary immunity, she did not go to prison, and the treason accusation was later dropped, while others charges related to Nisman's accusation remained. In 2015, she was indicted for obstructing the investigation into the 1994 AMIA Bombing, after Alberto Nisman's controversial accusation of a purported "pact" (a memorandum) signed between her government and Iran which was supposedly seeking impunity for Iranians involved in the terrorist attack.
She was charged for fraudulent low price sales of dollar futures, and later acquitted. During her two terms as president, several corruption scandals took place and subsequently her government faced several demonstrations against her rule. he established currency controls during her second term, and the country fell into sovereign default in 2014. The 37.3% difference between votes for hers and the runner-up ticket Binner-Morandini was the second largest in the history of Argentine general elections. History by country Argentina Ĭristina Fernández de Kirchner won the 2011 general election with 54.11% of the votes, the highest percentage obtained by any presidential candidate since 1983.
The political history of South America during the 2010s covers political events which happened in the countries of the region between 20.
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