Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the wife of Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, will take her husband’s job Dec. 10, after beating her closest rival by a wide margin to become the country’s first elected female president.

Fernandez will be Argentina’s second female president; Isabel Peron, who married Juan Peron after Eva Peron’s death, was his vice-president when he died in 1974 and served for 20 chaotic months before a military coup.

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