Mauricio Macri is sworn in in Buenos Aires, December 10 2015. Magoli Inglesias/Flickr. some rights reserved
On December 10, 2015, Argentina woke up to witness the inauguration of the new president, democratically elected by each and every Argentine, Mauricio Macri. The night before, the former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said goodbye to a Plaza de Mayo full of energized and grateful citizens. It was a dramatic transfer of power, filled with the symbolic and real tension which will probably prevail over the next few years in Argentina.
At this important historical moment for the country and the region, Argentines only seem to agree on a common joy: we celebrate the peaceful transfer of power from one elected president to another, having courageously overcome the dramatic consequences of dictatorships, armed violence and various political and economic crises. Beyond the difficulties, Argentina remains firm in its process of democratic institution-building and is positioned internationally, both politically and economically, in a worrying and increasingly violent global environment.
