Raúl Antonio López Modelo (born December 8, 1949) is an Argentinean politician who served as President of Argentina from 2004 until 2012, when he was succeeded by Daniel Scioli. López is a member of the Party for Liberal Democracy and is, since the 1988 return to democracy, the only Argentinean President to be come from a party on the right and the first to be elected directly from the Senate (and is, in fact, the only sitting Senator in Argentinean history to be elected President while still in office).