Alicia Kirchner

In thisSpanish name,the first or paternalsurnameisKirchnerand the second or maternal family name isOstoić.

Alicia Kirchner
National Senator
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 December 2023
Constituency	Santa Cruz
In office 10 December 2005 – 14 August 2006
Constituency	Santa Cruz
Governor of Santa Cruz
In office 10 December 2015 – 10 December 2023
Vice Governor	Pablo Gonzalez(2015–2019) Eugenio Quiroga (2019–present)
Preceded by	Daniel Peralta
Succeeded by	Claudio Vidal
Minister of Social Development
In office 14 August 2006 – 10 December 2015
President	Néstor Kirchner Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Preceded by	Juan Carlos Nadalich
Succeeded by	Carolina Stanley
In office 25 May 2003 – 10 December 2005
President	Néstor Kirchner
Preceded by	María Nélida Doga
Succeeded by	Juan Carlos Nadalich
Personal details
Born	Alicia Margarita Kirchner Ostoić (1946-07-18)18 July 1946 Río Gallegos,Santa Cruz,Argentina
Political party	Kolina(since 2010)
Other political affiliations	Front for Victory(2003–2019) Frente de Todos(2019–2023) Union for the Homeland(2023–present)
Spouse	Elvio Macchia
Relatives	Néstor Kirchner(brother) Cristina Fernández de Kirchner(sister-in-law)
Alma mater	University of Buenos Aires National University of General San Martín

Alicia Margarita Kirchner Ostoić(born 18 July 1946) is an Argentine politician. She is the elder sister of the late former PresidentNéstor Kirchnerand served in his government as Minister of Social Development, a role which she held under PresidentCristina Fernández de Kirchner,her sister-in-law, until the end of her presidential term on 9 December 2015. She served two consecutive terms asgovernorof her nativeSanta Cruz Provincefrom 2015 to 2023.

Since 2023, she has sat in theArgentine Senateas one of the three senators from Santa Cruz. She previously held the position from 2005 to 2006.

Biography

Kirchner worked as a teacher and social worker, holding a PhD in social work. From 1975 to 1983 she served as a sub-secretary of social action in her nativeSanta Cruz Province.From 1987 to 1990 she was a minister in the municipality ofRío Gallegos,leading on public health, education, culture, social action, recreation and sport. For a few months in 1990, and again between 1991 and 1995 she served as provincial minister for social affairs, under her brother who had been elected governor of Santa Cruz.

She resigned in 1995 to stand for Mayor of Río Gallegos but lost and worked in theArgentine Senateadvising on education and family matters, returning to her ministerial position between 1997 and 2003.

In May 2003, Néstor Kirchner became president and appointed his sister to his cabinet in a similar position she held under him at provincial level. In December 2005, Alicia Kirchner was elected to theArgentine Senateas senator for Santa Cruz Province for theFront for Victoryfaction, replacing her sister-in-law, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who stood inBuenos Aires Province.From her senate seat in a few months she steered two important social development matters through the Senate and was widely seen as still holding great influence in the ministry.[1]However, in August 2006 she returned to her former position in the cabinet replacingJuan Carlos Nadalich,leaving her senate seat vacant during aleave of absence.

Kirchner was touted as a likely Front for Victory candidate to be governor of Santa Cruz in the2007 elections,with fellow ministerJulio de Vidoas the other possible candidate mentioned.[2]President Kirchner's re-appointment of his sister to his cabinet was seen in some quarters as an initial show of support for her as candidate.[3]Archived3 March 2016 at theWayback MachineUltimately, however, Kirchner remained a minister following the 2007 elections (andDaniel Peraltabecame governor of Santa Cruz).

In 2015, Kirchner ran as a FpV gubernatorial candidate again under the "Siempre Santa Cruz" slate withPablo Gerardo Gonzálezas running mate, winning the governorship with 51,797 votes, defeating the rival FpV slate "Santa Cruz Somos Todos" and other party candidates.Former presidentCristina Fernandez de Kirchnerand her sonMáximo Kirchnerflew fromBuenos Aireson 10 December 2015, to attend Alicia Kirchner's swearing-in ceremony.

Alicia Kirchner also founded theNational Liberation Current(KOLINA), a national political activist organization and political party, on 20 July 2010.

Governor of Santa Cruz

Cabinet

Chief of cabinet and ministers
Office	Incumbent	Period
General secretary of government	Claudia Alejandra Martínez	10 December 2015
Minister of government	Fernando Miguel Basanta	10 December 2015
Minister of economy and public works	Juan Franco Donnini	10 December 2015
Minister of production	Leonardo Darío Álvarez	10 December 2015
Minister of social welfare	Marcela Paola Vessvessian	10 December 2015
Minister of health	María Rocío García	10 December 2015
Provincial council of education	Roberto Luis Borselli	10 December 2015
Secretaries
Office	Incumbent	Period
General accounting	CPN Mónica Mabel Morandi	10 December 2015
General Treasury	Elena Argentina González de Ramps	10 December 2015

External links

• KOLINA
• (in Spanish)Senate profile,accessed 2006-08-24
• (in Spanish)Ministry press release on re-appointment,accessed 2006-08-24