Mauricio Macri

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Mauricio Macri

Mauricio Macri (born February 8, 1959 in Tandil ) is an Argentine politician. From 2015 to 2019 he was President of Argentina . The politician of the conservative party Propuesta Republicana (PRO) had previously been mayor of the Argentine capital Buenos Aires , which is an autonomous province of Argentina , since December 11, 2007 . Before that he was an entrepreneur and from 1995 to 2007 he was also president of the Boca Juniors sports club .

Macri ran for the presidential election in Argentina in 2015 and won the runoff election on November 22, 2015 with 51.34 percent of the vote against the government candidate Daniel Scioli . He was sworn in as President on December 10, 2015 and ruled until December 9, 2019.

Life

Childhood, youth and entrepreneurship

Macri in the jersey of the Boca Juniors

Macri is the son of the well-known entrepreneur Franco Macri , who had built up an extensive group of companies when his son was born. After successfully studying civil engineering and working for various companies and in his father’s group, he became president of the automobile manufacturer Sevel in 1994 . In 2000, he and the company were charged with smuggling spare parts into Uruguay . Although he was able to demonstrate that it was a legal trade and was therefore acquitted, the officials who had followed the case were subsequently dismissed. From 1995 to 2007, in addition to his business activities, Macri was also president of the Boca Juniors sports club .

Early political activity

Macri entered politics in the early 2000s. In 2003 he founded the Compromiso para el Cambio party and ran for the office of mayor of Buenos Aires. Although he got the most votes in the first ballot, he was defeated in the runoff election by Aníbal Ibarra . In 2005 he applied for the House of Representatives of the Buenos Aires district in the Allianz Propuesta Republicana together with the Recrear para el Crecimiento party led by Ricardo López Murphy and won it for himself.

Mayor of Buenos Aires

Macri 2013 at the opening speech of the 125th IOC session in Buenos Aires

In 2007 he initially intended to run in the presidential elections together with Jorge Sobisch , the conservative governor of the Neuquén province at the time , in a formula. However, when Sobisch's image was badly damaged in the police repression against a demonstration of teachers after a murder case , Macri distanced himself from him and instead pursued the goal of a renewed candidacy for the mayor's office in Buenos Aires. This time he was the strongest candidate in the first round with 45.62 percent and clearly beat the FPV and PJ candidate , Daniel Filmus , in the runoff election.

In Macri's first term, the most important decision was the establishment of the Policía Metropolitana de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires , a separate police division for Buenos Aires, on March 17, 2008. Before that, security in the city had been guaranteed by the Policía Federal (Federal Police). However, the establishment of this police force was delayed; It was not until February 5, 2010 that she was able to take on her first tasks. The subway network was also expanded somewhat and a fast bus line, the Metrobús , was set up.

From 2009 Macri began a cooperation with the right wing of the PJ, which is dissident with the Kirchner government, in order to expand its influence to other provinces. Before the parliamentary elections he allied himself with the conservative Peronists Francisco de Narváez and Felipe Solá and founded the electoral alliance Unión-Pro . She achieved a respectable success when she narrowly prevailed as the strongest force in the most important province of Buenos Aires against Néstor Kirchner , who competed as the top candidate for the FPV . In the other provinces, with the exception of the city of Buenos Aires, Unión-Pro achieved only a small percentage of the votes or did not take part.

In 2011, Macri considered running again for the presidential election, but decided to try to get re-election as mayor of Buenos Aires. He was able to increase his result from 2007 with 47% and thus became the strongest candidate in the first round, again Daniel Filmus took second place. The runoff election at the end of July also ended with a clear victory for Macris, who received 64.25% of the vote.

President of Argentina

Macri 2010 with Gabriela Michetti : Since he took office in December 2015, his vice-president .

In the presidential elections in October / November 2015 , Macri stood for the alliance Cambiemos , which in addition to his party PRO also included the Unión Cívica Radical and the Coalición Cívica ARI . In the first round he finished second behind Daniel Scioli with 34.15 percent . Scioli was supported by the previous incumbent Cristina Kirchner . Because of his surprisingly good result compared to polls, Macri was then considered the favorite for the runoff election.

The run-off election to the presidency in Argentina won Macri with 51.34% (12,988,349 votes) of the vote and a lead of 678,774 votes.

Macri with Angela Merkel during the G7 summit in La Malbaie 2018

Macri took office on December 10, 2015. His first important official acts included the abolition of export taxes on corn, wheat, sorghum, sunflower and meat products and the reduction of the taxes on soy products from 35 to 30 percent.

Macri caused an initial controversy with an ordinance with which, in view of two vacancies in the Supreme Court, he filled the two judges' posts for the summer recess until March 2016 without consulting the Senate. For this Macri acted criticism from constitutional lawyers, opposition politicians and also allies like Julio Cobos , who described this procedure as unconstitutional.

On the evening of December 16, 2015, Macri's government lifted the restrictions on foreign currency trading that had been in force since the end of 2011. This led to a devaluation of the Argentine peso of around 35 percent, but without putting undue pressure on exchange rates.

In the course of the publication of the Panama Papers , Macri's entrepreneurial activities became known to the public. Macri becomes director of Fleg Trading Ltd. and Kagemusha SA , which his father, the large entrepreneur Franco Macri, owned until 2009. He did not disclose this during his tenure as Mayor of Buenos Aires from December 2007 to 2015. It is unclear whether he was obliged to do so, as he did not hold any capital in the company. After a complaint by the MP Norman Darío Martínez of the opposition Frente para la Victoria , the public prosecutor Federico Delgado opened an investigation on April 7, 2016. The investigating judge is Sebastián Casanello.

In June 2019, the heads of government of the Mercosur countries agreed on a free trade agreement with the EU.

In the 2019 presidential elections, as a candidate for the Juntos por el Cambio alliance, he was defeated by the challenger duo Alberto Fernández and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Macri received 40.37% of the vote.

Private

Macri is Catholic and has been married to Juliana Awada , a Lebanese textile entrepreneur born on April 3, 1974 in Buenos Aires, on November 16, 2010 . Their daughter Antonia was born in 2011. From his first marriage to Ivonne Bordeu, Macri has grown children Agustina, Gimena and Francisco.

Web links

Commons : Mauricio Macri  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The era of Kirchnerism is over , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 22, 2015
  2. ↑ Procesan a Mauricio Macri por contrabando , La Nación
  3. ↑ Cómputos oficiales: Macri arrasó y Filmus va al ballottage , Clarín , June 3, 2007
  4. ↑ Doble caída de Kirchner: en la Capital ganó Macri y en Tierra del Fuego, ARI , La Nación , June 24, 2007
  5. ↑ En su primer día en la calle, la Metropolitana hizo controles y patrullaje , Clarín, February 5, 2010
  6. ^ Macri, Solá y De Narváez: primer paso para pelearle al kirchnerismo , Clarín, February 12, 2009
  7. ↑ Kirchner admitió la derrota; De Narváez ganó en la provincia y el oficialismo perdió control en el nuevo Congreso , La Nación, June 28, 2009
  8. ↑ Macri se quedó con la primera vuelta y va al balotaje con Filmus , La Voz del Interior , July 10, 2011
  9. ↑ Conservative wins runoff election in Buenos Aires , amerika21.de
  10. ↑ Argentina's president relies on a silver bullet . Die Welt, November 24, 2015.
  11. ↑ El escrutinio definitivo confirmó el ballotage y estiró la diferencia entre Daniel Scioli y Mauricio Macri , Infobae, November 3, 2015
  12. ^ Election victory for Macri - Lighthouse Argentina , faz.net, accessed on November 23, 2015
  13. ↑ Dieron a conocer el escrutinio definitivo: cuál fue la diferencia entre Mauricio Macri y Daniel Scioli , infobae.com, accessed on December 15, 2015 (Spanish)
  14. ↑ Macri anunció la quita total de retenciones a trigo, maíz, sorgo, girasol y carnes , Clarín , December 14, 2015
  15. ↑ Mauricio Macri, el tercer presidente kirchnerista , Perfil , December 15, 2015
  16. ↑ Desde la UCR cuestionan a Macri por la Corte y exigen sesiones extraordinarias: "El decreto es innecesario" , La Nación , December 15, 2015
  17. ↑ ¿Por qué no se disparó el precio del dólar? , El Cronista, December 22, 2015
  18. ↑ Here are the famous politicos in 'the Wikileaks of the mega-rich'. In: fusion.net. Fusion Media Network, April 3, 2016, accessed April 8, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Argentina's President and the Mailbox Companies: "Panamacri". Spiegel Online , April 9, 2016, accessed April 9, 2016 .
  20. ↑ Daniel Brössler Osaka: European companies can save four billion euros . In: sueddeutsche.de . June 29, 2019, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed July 1, 2019]).
  21. ^ Elecciones 2019. Retrieved November 6, 2019 .
  22. ↑ The pompous wedding party of Mauricio Macri ( Memento of 23 November 2015, Internet Archive ), m24digital.com, accessed on November 23, 2015
  23. ↑ Quiénes son los hijos del nuevo presidente , www.clarin.com, accessed December 10, 2015
predecessor Office successor
Jorge Telerman Head of Government of Buenos Aires
2007-2015 		Horacio Rodríguez Larreta
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner President of Argentina
2015-2019 		Alberto Ángel Fernández
personal data
SURNAME Macri, Mauricio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine entrepreneur and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Tandile