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Mauricio Macri (Spanish pronunciation: [mauˈɾisjo̞ ˈmakri] born 8 February 1959) is an Argentine businessman turned politician, son of Francisco Macri, a businessman of Italian origin prominent in the industrial and construction sectors. He represented the city of Buenos Aires in the Lower House of Congress, and, since December 10, 2007, is the Head of Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. Macri is twice divorced and has three children.
[edit] BiographyMauricio 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 the local Universidad del CEMA. [1] His professional experience started in SIDECO Americana S.A., a construction company belonging to his father's holding company, the Socma Group, where we worked for 3 years as Junior Analyst, later becoming a Senior Analyst. In 1984, he worked in the credit department of Citibank Argentina, in Buenos Aires. He joined Socma the same year, and from 1985 onwards he served as General Manager. In 1992 he became the vicepresident of Sevel (then manufacturing Fiat and Peugeot automobiles under licence in Argentina, and part of Socma), climbing to the presidency in 1994.[1] In 1991, he was kidnapped for 12 days by officers of the Federal District Police, and then freed after his family reportedly paid a multi-million dollar ransom.[2] He has since said that during the ordeal, he decided to enter politics.[3] He gained recognition as president of the most popular football club 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. [edit] Political careerIn 2003 Macri made his political debut when he founded the center-right party Compromiso para el Cambio (Commitment to Change)[4], and later that year he ran for mayor of the city of Buenos Aires for his party. He won the first round of the election with 33.9% but lost the runoff election with 47% of the vote to his opponent Aníbal Ibarra. In 2005, he joined Ricardo López Murphy of Recrear to create a right-wing electoral front called Propuesta Republicana (a.k.a. PRO [5]) and successfully ran in the city of Buenos Aires for the Argentine Chamber of Deputies where he won with 33.9% of the votes.[6] Throughout 2006 he alternated his political activities as deputy with his presidency of the soccer club Boca Juniors. During that year he was absent to a 70% of the polls at the Chamber of Deputies, something for what he was later widely criticized, to what he answered he didn't assist because the Congress "is a place where ideas are not debated".[7] In 2007 Macri was in discussions with right-conservative Jorge Sobisch[8], governor of Neuquén Province, ahead of the 2007 national elections. However, this agreement was in conflict with the previous alliance with Ricardo López Murphy who had decided to run for the presidency and had denounced Sobisch for corruption, providing as proof a video where Sobisch was bribing Jorge Taylor, deputy of the Radical party. Later that year, Sobisch image was severely damaged when the school teacher Carlos Fuentealba was killed during a syndical demonstration in Neuquén. In front of this situation, Macri immediately defused his agreements with Sobisch and remained neutral during the national elections of 2007.[9] In February 2007 Macri announced that he would run once again for the mayoral elections of the city of Buenos Aires in the 2007, 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. [10] [11] 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. [12] The perceived blow to Kirchner's political support was reinforced by the provincial elections on Tierra del Fuego, which took place on the same day, where another candidate backed by the national government lost to ARI's Fabiana Ríos. [edit] Current administration[edit] Union conflictsOne of the first administrative decisions taken by his government was to fire 2400 city employees under contract, whose contracts were not renewed, claiming that they all were "ñoquis" (employees who receive a salary but never show up to work). This action caused conflicts with the city unions which were followed up by strikes of the SUTECBA-CGT and ATE-CTA unions. In response to the strike, Macri administratively intervened the medical security organization of the city workers which depends on the unions. [13][14] [edit] Metropolitan policeThe main police force which acts in the city is the Argentine Federal Police. The city, being a capital district until 1994 when a new National Constitution was sanctioned, did not elect the mayor who by then was appointed by the president. When in 1996 the new City Constitution was created, a national law was passed, known as "Cafiero Law", which kept the Federal Police control for the Ministry of Justice of the National Government. Since then this lack of control for any police force from the mayor, has been a persistent problem between the city and the federal government. After several months of negotiations with the National Government, they did not arrive to any agreement, and on March 2008, Macri announced he would create a new Metropolitan Police force under his control. On October 28, 2008, the law was sanctioned by the Legislature of Buenos Aires. Initially it would have approximately 1000 effectives and it should start working by the end of 2009[15]. The situations in which this police force would be allowed to act, is yet to be determined by an agreement with the National Government, but in principle it would be allowed to act in evictions and traffic blocking protests[16]. The first chief of the Metropolitan Police, Jorge Alberto "Fino" Palacios was forced to resign on August 25 2009 after an important public resistance[17][18], due to an ongoing investigation about his involvement in the AMIA bombing of 1994, his sucessor being Osvaldo Chamorro, his second in chief.[19] [edit] References
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