Former Argentina president Nestor Kirchner, the current president’s husband and one of the country’s most powerful politicians, died on Wednesday, his doctor said.
Kirchner, considered President Cristina Fernandez’s closest adviser and a major power broker in her government, had been expected to run again for president in next year’s election.
“It was a sudden death. There will be an official medical report,” said Kirchner’s doctor, Luis Buonomo. The former president died in the southern city of El Calafate.
Kirchner had undergone two arterial procedures earlier this year. — Reuters