Inauguration of Alberto Fernández

The inauguration of Alberto Fernández as president of Argentina took place on 10 December 2019.

Inauguration of Alberto Fernández
Date10 December 2019 (2019-12-10)
LocationPalace of the Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina
ParticipantsAlberto Fernández
Mauricio Macri
International attendees

Alberto Fernández wished for the bulk of the ceremony, including the concession of the presidential symbols, to take place in the Congressional Palace (as in the previous inaugurations of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner), rather than in the Casa Rosada,[1] as it was the case in 2015. In the end the outgoing president, Mauricio Macri reluctantly approved.[1]

President Alberto Fernández (left) with his Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (right)

As planned, he was sworn in at the Chamber of Deputies Hall of the National Congress, before outgoing President Mauricio Macri, outgoing Vice President Gabriela Michetti and Vice President-elect Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who also assumed as Vice President.[2]

President Fernández (at the center, wearing a presidential sash and staff) with the Provisional President of the Senate Claudia Ledesma Abdala (left), former president and predecessor Mauricio Macri (right) and Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (beside Macri) at the Palace of the Argentine National Congress

During a 1 hour-long speech, President Alberto Fernández broadly described the state of affairs in Argentina and vowed to revive growth to escape from "virtual default".[3][4]

Once in the Casa Rosada, Fernández and Felipe Solá (Foreign Minister-designate), met with the international guests in the afternoon.[5]

Later in the afternoon, Fernández administered the oath of office to the ministers of the cabinet.[6]

Prior to the inauguration, the fences in the Plaza de Mayo had been removed.[7] Peronist sympathizers gathered around the Plaza de Mayo and the Congress to celebrate the presidential inauguration. In the former, a music festival took place throughout the afternoon. At the end, President Fernández spoke to the crowd gathered there.[8]

International attendees

Attendees listed in the order in which they were received by Fernández and Solá.

Sovereign states
Country Dignitary Title
 Paraguay Mario Abdo Benítez[6] President
 Uruguay Tabaré Vázquez[6] President
Luis Lacalle Pou[6] President-elect
 Cuba Miguel Díaz Canel[6] President
 Serbia Ana Brnabić[9] Prime Minister
 Suriname Ashwin Adhin[9] Vice-President
 Brazil Hamilton Mourão[6] Vice-President
 Venezuela Jorge Rodríguez[6] Minister of the Popular Power for Communication and Information
 Spain Pilar Llop Cuenca[6] President of the Senate
 Panama Martín Torrijos Espino[6] Ex-president
 China Arken Imirbaki[10] Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
 Holy See Martin Krebs[6] Nuncio to Uruguay
 Peru Vicente Zeballos Salinas[9] President of the Council of Ministers
 Georgia Natia Surava[9] Acting Head of the Presidential Administration
 Sovereign Order of Malta José María Coello de Portugal y Martínez del Peral[9] Member of the Council of Government
 Qatar Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari[6] Minister of State
 Uruguay Lucía Topolansky[6] Vice-President
José Mujica[6] Ex-President
 Ecuador Rafael Correa Delgado[6] Ex-President
 Paraguay Fernando Lugo[6] Ex-President
 Brazil Celso Amorim[10] Ex-Foreign Minister
 Portugal Augusto Santos Silva[9] Foreign Minister
 Nicaragua Denis Ronaldo Moncada Colindres[9] Foreign Minister
 United States Alex Azar II[10] Secretary of Health and Human Services
 Colombia José Manuel Restrepo Abondano[9] Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism
 France Roxana Maracineanu[9] Sports Minister
 Mexico Olga Sánchez Cordero[10] Secretary of the Interior
 Netherlands Winnie Sorgdrager Minister of State
 El Salvador Ana Geraldine Béneke Castaneda[9] Foreign Vice-Minister
 Ukraine Sergiy Kyslytsya[9] Foreign Vice-Minister
 Dominican Republic Marjorie Espinosa[9] Foreign Vice-Minister
 Italy Ricardo Merlo[9] Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs
 Armenia Grigor Hovhannissian Foreign Vice-Minister
 Chile Carolina Valdivia Torres[10] Substitute Foreign Minister
 United Kingdom Gloria Dorothy Hooper, Baroness Hooper[10] Member of the House of Lords
 Japan Kozo Yamamoto[9] Member of Parliament
 Canada Rosa Galvez Senator
 Russia Konstantin Kosachev Senator

International organizations
Organization Representative Title
International Labour Organization Guy Ryder Director-General
Latin American Integration Association Alejandro de la Peña Navarrete Secretary-General
Inter American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture Manuel Otero Director-General
Latin-American Energy Organization Alfonso Blanco Bonilla Secretary-General
Plata Basin Financial Development Fund Juan Notaro Fraga Executive President
UNECLAC Alicia Bárcena Ibarra Executive Secretary
Mercosur Parliament Daniel Caggiani President
Ibero-American General Secretariat Rebeca Grynspan Secretary-General
Antarctic Treaty Secretariat Albert Lluberas Executive Secretary
World Tourism Organization Zurab Pololikashvili Secretary General
ABACC Elena Maceiras Secretary-General

References
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  2. EFE. "El peronista Alberto Fernández jura el cargo como presidente de Argentina". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  3. "'We're back': Alberto Fernández sworn in as Argentina shifts to the left". the Guardian. 2019-12-10. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  4. González, Enric (2019-12-11). "Alberto Fernández: "Argentina tiene la voluntad de pagar, pero no tiene los recursos para hacerlo"". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  5. "Traspaso: los mandatarios y representantes internacionales que asistieron". www.lanacion.com.ar (in Spanish). 2019-12-10. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  6. "Minuto a minuto: la asunción de Alberto Fernández". Infobae. 10 December 2019.
  7. ElPais. "Fernández: "Dejaron al país en virtual default" y "vamos a ponerlo de pie"". Diario EL PAIS Uruguay (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  8. Centenera, Mar (2019-12-11). "Fiesta peronista en las calles: "Presidente, Alberto presidente"". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  9. De 2019, 10 De Diciembre. "Alberto Fernández y Felipe Solá recibieron a los invitados extranjeros". Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  10. EFE. "Correa, Mujica y Celso Amorim arropan a Fernández en su investidura". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-12-11.


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