Inauguration of Mauricio Macri
2015 Argentine presidential inauguration ceremony
The inauguration of Mauricio Macri as the 57th president of Argentina took place on 10 December 2015. It followed a rocky presidential transition and a dispute over ceremonial protocol between outgoing president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and president-elect Mauricio Macri.The event preceded the Kirchner's own inauguration on 10 December 2015 and succeeded by the Alberto Fernández' inauguration on 10 December 2019.
Transition and controversy
Macri was elected president in the 2015 general elections, defeating Kirchnerist candidate Daniel Scioli. He met President Kirchner at the Quinta de Olivos a few days later. The meeting was focused on discussing the oath of office ceremony. In a part of that ceremony, the outgoing president hands the presidential sash and staff to the new president, as symbols of his presidential authority. Macri said that the meeting was pointless.
A few days later, it was announced that the whole ceremony would take place in the Argentine Congress, arguing that the Argentine Constitution orders that the oath of office must take place there. Macri agreed to make the oath of office in the Congress, but thought that he should then move to the Casa Rosada across the Avenida de Mayo and receive the sash and staff from Cristina at the White Hall, as was traditionally done. He argued that this was called for by presidential protocol.
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