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Mauricio Macri (born
8 February 1959) is an
Argentine politician. He served as a
national deputy representing the city of
Buenos Aires in the
Lower House of
Congress, and, since
10 December 2007, is the
Head of Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. He is twice divorced and has three children.
Macri was born in
Tandil, in the
province of
Buenos Aires, and studied at the
Catholic University of Argentina (UCA), where he received a degree in
Civil Engineering. He also attended
Columbia Business School,
Wharton Business School and
Universidad del CEMA.
His professional career in business includes management positions in various companies since 1985 such as
Sideco,
SOCMA and
Sevel. These companies were part of a larger family business corporation managed by his father
Franco Macri. He gained recognition as president of one of the most popular
football clubs in Argentina,
Boca Juniors. He was elected in 1995 and reelected in 1999 and 2003, to complete one of the most successful periods of the club, winning several international competitions.
In 2006, Mauricio Macri was appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador of the Intergovernmental Institution for the use of Micro-algae Spirulina Against Malnutrition, IIMSAM, that works to promote the use of micro-algae
Spirulina (
Spirulina platensis) to counter malnutrition and its severe negative impacts especially in the Developing and the Least Developed Countries (LDC).
Political career
In 2003 Macri made his political debut when he ran for Head of Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires with his neo-liberal party
Compromiso para el Cambio (
Commitment to Change). He won the first round of the election with 33.9% but lost the
runoff election with 47% of the popular vote to his opponent
Aníbal Ibarra.
In the
2005 legislative elections he won a seat in the
Chamber of Deputies, representing the city of Buenos Aires, with more than 33% of the votes. He joined fellow politician and economist
Ricardo López Murphy of
Recrear to create a right-wing electoral front called
Propuesta Republicana (known as PRO) and sat in the PRO block of the
Argentine Chamber of Deputies. He was also in discussions with conservative
Jorge Sobisch, governor of
Neuquén Province, ahead of the
2007 elections.
In February 2007 Macri announced that he'd run once again to be Head of Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires in the 2007 elections, heading the PRO slate with
Gabriela Michetti as his running mate. In the
first round of the election on
2 June 2007 he won with 45.6% of votes over the government-backed candidate,
Daniel Filmus, who received 23.8% of votes. The
incumbent Jorge Telerman, came in third place. The runoff election between Macri and Filmus took place on
24 June 2007, and resulted in Macri's victory with 60.96% of the votes.
Macri's victory was largely analyzed as a defeat for President
Néstor Kirchner and turned the elected mayor into
de facto leader of the right-wing opposition, which has remained fractured after the Argentine political crisis of late 2001. The perceived blow to Kirchner's political support was reinforced by The Buenos Aires election was held on the same date as the provincial election in
Tierra del Fuego, in which another candidate backed by the national government lost to
ARI's
Fabiana Ríos.
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