2015 in Argentina

Incumbents

• President: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner - Mauricio Macri
• Vice president: Amado Boudou - Gabriela Michetti

  Events

January

• January 2: Alberto Kryvszuk, former mayor of El Soberbio and fugitive, gives himself up to the police.
• January 5: Héctor Eduardo Ruiz, former mayor of La Banda and fugitive, is captured by the police.
• January 8: A new law adds the election of the members to the Mercosur Parliament in the upcoming general elections.
• January 9: Judge Enrique Lavié Pico prevents the appointment of 16 kirchnerite prosecutors.
• January 11
• * Minister Héctor Timerman takes part in the Republican marches against the Charlie Hebdo shooting in France, despite the lack of presidential authorization.
• * Sergio Massa and Francisco de Narváez make an alliance for the general elections.
• January 14: Prosecutor Alberto Nisman denounces president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and foreign minister Héctor Timerman of a plan to conceal the Iranian involvement in the 1994 AMIA Bombing. The Republican Proposal party summons him to Congress, to explain the denounce in full detail.
• January 18: Death of Alberto Nisman, prosecutor that investigated the AMIA Bombing.

  February

• February 18 - The 18F demonstration takes place, a month after Nisman's death, still unresolved by then.

  March

• March 1 - Cristina Kirchner opens the 2015 sessions of the Argentine Congress.
• March 9 - Two helicopters collide in mid-air in a remote area of northwestern Argentina leaving at least ten dead. Among the dead are a group of French sports stars participating in a reality-television show called Dropped.

  April

May

June

• #NiUnaMenos massive demonstration against femicides.

  July

August

September

October

• October 25 - The general elections are held.

  November

December

• 10: Mauricio Macri takes office as the president of Argentina.

  Deaths

• January 18: Alberto Nisman
• February 27: Julio César Strassera
• March 8: Gerardo Sofovich
• June 13: Sergio Renán
• June 18: Roberto M. Levingston
• June 25: Alejandro Romay
• June 29: Mario Losada
• August 21: Ana Baron, journalist