The order of precedence in
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
is a symbolic hierarchy of officials used to direct protocol. It is regulated by Presidential Decree 2072 of 10 October 1993, signed by then
President
President most commonly refers to:
*President (corporate title)
*President (education), a leader of a college or university
*President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...
Carlos Menem
Carlos Saúl Menem (2 July 1930 – 14 February 2021) was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999. Ideologically, he identified as a Peronist and supported economically liberal policies. H ...
, and former ministers
Guido di Tella
Guido di Tella (June 12, 1931 – December 31, 2001) was an Argentine businessman, academic and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Life and times
Guido José Mario Di Tella was born in Buenos Aires, 1931. His father, Torcuat ...
and
Carlos Ruckauf
Carlos Federico Ruckauf (born July 10, 1944) is a Peronist politician in Argentina, member of the Justicialist Party. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from January 2002 to March 2003. He had earlier served as Vice-President of Argentina fr ...
.
The order of succession should the presidency unexpectedly become vacant is specified by Law 25716 of 2002.
Order of precedence
Precedence is determined by the office; names of incumbents are listed.
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President of the Nation (
Alberto Fernández
Alberto Ángel Fernández (; born 2 April 1959) is an Argentine politician, lawyer and professor, serving as president of Argentina since 2019.
Born in Buenos Aires, Fernández attended the University of Buenos Aires, where he earned his law ...
)
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Vice President of the Nation (
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner (; born 19 February 1953), often referred to by her initials CFK, is an Argentine lawyer and politician who has served as the Vice President of Argentina since 2019. She also served as the President ...
)
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Provisional President of the Senate (
Claudia Ledesma Abdala
Claudia Alejandra Ledesma Abdala de Zamora (born 14 September 1974) is an Argentine politician, currently serving as a National Senator for Santiago del Estero Province and as Provisional President of the Argentine Senate since 2019. A member of ...
)
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President of the Chamber of Deputies President of the Chamber of Deputies may refer to:
* List of presidents of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies
* List of presidents of the Chamber of Deputies of Bolivia
* President of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)
* President of the Chamber of Dep ...
(
Cecilia Moreau
Cecilia Moreau (born 5 December 1976) is an Argentine politician, currently serving as National Deputy representing Buenos Aires Province since 2015, and as President of the Chamber of Deputies since 2022. She is the first woman to hold that ...
)
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President of the Supreme Court (Justice
Horacio Rosatti
Horacio Daniel Rosatti (born 11 August 1956, in Santa Fe) is an Argentine lawyer, politician and a member of the Supreme Court of Argentina since 2016, designated by president Mauricio Macri's and the Senate's approval. On September of 2021 he wa ...
)
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Living former Presidents of the Nation in order of seniority
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Isabel Perón
Isabel Martínez de Perón (, born María Estela Martínez Cartas, 4 February 1931), also known as Isabelita, is an Argentine politician who served as President of Argentina from 1974 to 1976. She was one of the first female republican heads ...
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Adolfo Rodríguez Saá
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá (born 25 July 1947) is an Argentine Peronist politician. Born in a family that was highly influential in the history of the San Luis Province, he became the province's governor in 1983, after the end of the National Reorg ...
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Eduardo Duhalde
Eduardo Alberto Duhalde (; born 5 October 1941) is an Argentine Peronist politician who served as the interim President of Argentina from January 2002 to May 2003. He also served as Vice President and Governor of Buenos Aires in the 1990s.
Bor ...
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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner (; born 19 February 1953), often referred to by her initials CFK, is an Argentine lawyer and politician who has served as the Vice President of Argentina since 2019. She also served as the President ...
(appears above as Vice President)
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Mauricio Macri
Mauricio Macri (; born 8 February 1959) is an Argentine businessman and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019. He has been the leader of the Republican Proposal (PRO) party since its founding in 2005. He previou ...
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Provincial Governors and the
Chief of Government of Buenos Aires
, image = R larreta.jpg
, alt = Mayor of Buenos Aires
, incumbent = Horacio Rodríguez Larreta
, incumbentsince = 10 December 2015
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Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers
The Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Argentine Nation ( es, Jefe de Gabinete de Ministros de la Nación Argentina; JGM), more commonly known simply as the Cabinet Chief ( es, Jefe de Gabinete) is a ministerial office within the governmen ...
(
Juan Luis Manzur
Juan Luis Manzur (born 8 January 1969) is an Argentine surgeon and politician. A member of the Justicialist Party, he currently serves as Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers, under President Alberto Fernández. He previously served as Minister of H ...
)
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National Cabinet Ministers
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General Secretary of the Presidency of the Nation (
Julio Vitobello
Julio Fernando Vitobello (born 2 March 1957) is an Argentine politician who has served as General Secretary of the Presidency of the Nation since 2019, designated by President Alberto Fernández. Previously, from 2009 to 2015, he was head of th ...
)
#Chief of Staff of the
Armed Forces
A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. It is typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with its members identifiable by their distinct ...
(Lt. Gen. (Air Force)
Jorge Alberto Chevalier
Jorge is a Spanish and Portuguese given name. It is derived from the Greek name Γεώργιος ('' Georgios'') via Latin ''Georgius''; the former is derived from (''georgos''), meaning "farmer" or "earth-worker".
The Latin form ''Georgius'' ...
)
#Commanders of each armed force (
Navy
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,
Air Force
An air force – in the broadest sense – is the national military branch that primarily conducts aerial warfare. More specifically, it is the branch of a nation's armed services that is responsible for aerial warfare as distinct from an a ...
and
Army
An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...
)
#Ministers of the
Supreme Court
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#General Prosecutor of the Nation (
Alejandra Gils Carbó)
#National Prosecutor for Administrative Investigations (Sergio Rodríguez)
#Secretaries of the Presidency of the Nation
#Chief of the
Casa Militar
#Vice presidents of both
chambers of the National Congress
#Provincial Vice-governors
#Argentine
ambassadors
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in office abroad
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Cardinals
Cardinal or The Cardinal may refer to:
Animals
* Cardinal (bird) or Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
**''Cardinalis'', genus of cardinal in the family Cardinalidae
**''Cardinalis cardinalis'', or northern cardinal, the ...
#President of the
Argentine Episcopal Conference The Argentine Episcopal Conference ( es, Conferencia Episcopal Argentina) is an episcopal conference of the Roman Catholic Church of Argentina that gathers the bishops of the country in order to discuss pastoral issues and in general all matters tha ...
(Archbishop
José María Arancedo
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In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacul ...
)
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Archbishop of Buenos Aires
The Archdiocese of Buenos Aires (''Archidioecesis Bonaerensis'') is one of thirteen Latin Metropolitan archdioceses of the Catholic Church in Argentina, South America.
The Archbishopric of Buenos Aires is the Primatial see (protocollary first-ra ...
(
Mario Poli
Mario Aurelio Poli (; born 29 November 1947) is an Argentine prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as the Archbishop of Buenos Aires since April 2013. He previously served as the Bishop of Santa Rosa from 2008 to 2013. Pope Francis, his ...
)
#Presidents of each
parliamentary bloc at the
Senate
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and the
Chamber of Deputies of the Nation
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National Senators and
National Deputies
#Archbishops
#Vice presidents of Provincial Senates and Chambers of Deputies
#Presidents of Provincial Supreme Courts
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Major Generals
Major (commandant in certain jurisdictions) is a military rank of commissioned officer status, with corresponding ranks existing in many military forces throughout the world. When used unhyphenated and in conjunction with no other indicators ...
of the Army
#Rear Admirals - Upper Half
#Major Generals of the Air Force
#Argentine Ambassadors based in Argentina
#President of the National Criminal Court of Appeals (Judge Juan Carlos Rodríguez Basavilbaso)
#Presidents of National and Federal Courts of Appeals
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Bishops
A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution.
In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...
and their equivalents in other officially recognised religions
#Secretaries at the National Congress
#Members of the National Court of Criminal Appeals
#Members of National and Federal Courts of Appeals
#Undersecretaries of State
#Undersecretary of the Treasury
#Commander of the
Argentine Federal Police
The Argentine Federal Police ( es, Policía Federal Argentina or PFA) is the national civil police force of the Argentine federal government. The PFA has detachments throughout the country. Until January 1, 2017, it also acted as the local la ...
(Commissioner-Major Néstor Vallecca)
#Commander of the
Argentine National Gendarmerie
The Argentine National Gendarmerie ( es, Gendarmería Nacional Argentina, GNA) is the national gendarmerie force and corps of border guards of the Argentine Republic. It has a strength of 70,000.
The gendarmerie is primarily a frontier guard forc ...
(
Commandant-general
Commandant-general is a military rank in several countries and is generally equivalent to that of major-general.
Argentina
Commandant general is the highest rank in the Argentine National Gendarmerie, and is held by the national director of the g ...
Héctor Bernabé Schenone)
#Commander of the
Argentine Naval Prefecture
The Argentine Naval Prefecture ( es, Prefectura Naval Argentina or PNA) is a service of Argentina's Security Ministry charged with protecting the country's rivers and maritime territory. It therefore fulfills the functions of other countries' coa ...
(Prefect Oscar Adolfo Arce)
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Brigade General
Brigadier general or Brigade general is a military rank used in many countries. It is the lowest ranking general officer in some countries. The rank is usually above a colonel, and below a major general or divisional general. When appointed to ...
s of the Army
#Rear Admirals - Lower Half
#Brigade Generals of the Air Force
#Argentine
Chargé d'affaires
A ''chargé d'affaires'' (), plural ''chargés d'affaires'', often shortened to ''chargé'' (French) and sometimes in colloquial English to ''charge-D'', is a diplomat who serves as an embassy's chief of mission in the absence of the ambassador ...
in office abroad
#Secretaries at the Supreme Court
#Federal and National Judges
#National Directors
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Rectors of
National Universities
A national university is mainly a university created or managed by a government, but which may also at the same time operate autonomously without direct control by the state.
Some national universities are associated with national cultural or po ...
#Presidents of National Academies
#President of the
Central Bank of Argentina
The Central Bank of the Argentine Republic ( es, Banco Central de la República Argentina, BCRA) is the central bank of Argentina, being an autarchic entity.
Article 3 of the Organic Charter lists the objectives of this Institution: “The bank ...
(
Miguel Ángel Pesce
Miguel Ángel Pesce (born 20 September 1962) is an Argentine economist, currently serving as president of the Central Bank of Argentina in the Alberto Fernández administration, since 2019. Pesce previously served as vice president of the Central ...
)
#President of the
Banco de la Nación Argentina
Banco de la Nación Argentina ( en, Bank of the Argentine Nation) is a national bank in Argentina, and the largest in the country's banking sector.
History
The Bank of the Argentine Nation was founded on 18 October 1891 by President Carlos Pel ...
(Eduardo Hecker)
#Presidents of state-owned companies (''reparticiones autárquicas'')
#Deputy Rectors of National Universities
#General Directors
#Argentine
Consul
Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states throug ...
s in office abroad
#Argentine diplomatic
Attaché
In diplomacy, an attaché is a person who is assigned ("to be attached") to the diplomatic or administrative staff of a higher placed person or another service or agency. Although a loanword from French, in English the word is not modified accor ...
s in office abroad
#Director of the
Argentine National Library
The Mariano Moreno National Library ( es, Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno) is the largest national library, library in Argentina. It is located in the barrio of Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Recoleta in Buenos Aires. The library is named after Marian ...
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Juan Sasturain
''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...
)
#Director of National Museums
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Deans of National Faculties
#Presidents of National Professional Associations
Order of succession
The order of succession should the presidency unexpectedly become vacant is specified by Law 25716 of 2002:
Ley de acefalía del Poder Ejecutivo
Document covers law 20972 as modified by law 25716.
* The Vice President
* The Provisional President of the Senate
* The President of the Chamber of Deputies
* The President of the Supreme Court of Justice
until Congress designates a president according to article 88 of the Constitution of Argentina
The Constitution of the Argentine Nation ( es, Constitución de la Nación Argentina) is the basic governing document of Argentina, and the primary source of existing law in Argentina. Its first version was written in 1853 by a constitutional ...
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References
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