Argerich has never been connected to any political party. However, she stated in a 2019 interview that she is strongly against capital punishment and admires the French politician Robert Badinter, who enacted the abolition of the death penalty in France. Her friend pianist Daniel Barenboim stated that when he contacted the Argentine president Mauricio Macri in 2016, asking him to accept Syrian refugees into the country, it was also on behalf of Argerich.
Argerich has never been connected to any political party However she stated in a 2019 interview that she is strongly against capital punishment and admires the French politician Robert Badinter who enacted the abolition of the death penalty in France Her friend pianist Daniel Barenboim stated that when he contacted the Argentine president Mauricio Macri in 2016 asking him to accept Syrian refugees into the country it was also on behalf of Argerich