Roberto Lavagna

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Roberto Lavagna (born March 24, 1942 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine politician, economist and diplomat. From 2002 to 2005 he was Minister of Economic Affairs under the Peronist Presidents Eduardo Duhalde and Néstor Kirchner and a presidential candidate in the 2007 and 2019 elections .

Childhood, studies and first years of employment (until 2002)

Roberto Lavagna comes from a middle class family in the Saavedra district (Buenos Aires). His father worked as a printer, his mother was a housewife. From 1960 to 1966 he studied economics at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). After a brief activity in the management of the Argentine Central Bank, he went to Brussels to study. There he did postgraduate studies in econometrics and economic policy.

After his return in the early 1970s, he worked in the Ministry of Economic Affairs during Juan Perón's presidency . Shortly before the military coup in 1976 , he resigned from the ministry and then worked as a consultant. In the 1990s, PJ member Lavagna belonged to the party opposition to Carlos Menem . In 2000 he was sent by President Fernando de la Rúa as ambassador to the EU in Brussels and to the WTO in Geneva. He was also in this position at the beginning of the economic crisis in 2001 .

Lavagna announced that although he was a member of the Judicialist Party (PJ), he had not voted for PJ candidate Eduardo Duhalde in the 1999 presidential election.

Minister of Economic Affairs 2002-2005

On April 26, 2002, in the midst of the Argentine economic crisis, he was appointed Minister of Economics by President Eduardo Duhalde. The following President Néstor Kirchner took over as Minister of Economics. He negotiated new repayment terms with the International Monetary Fund and most of Argentina's creditors after the insolvency; mostly with a 75% devaluation of debt. During this time, after a four-year recession, the Argentine economy achieved growth figures averaging slightly more than 8%.

On November 28, 2005 Lavagna resigned as Minister of the Economy. He is credited with having partially consolidated the country after the economic crisis.

Presidential nominations in 2007 and 2019

After he had already been traded as a presidential and vice-presidential candidate for the 2003 elections due to his success as Minister of Economic Affairs during the financial crisis , he ran for the 2007 presidential election. With his nomination “ Una Nación Avanzada ” he achieved 16.9% of the votes and thus took third place behind Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Elisa Carrió .

In the 2015 presidential elections , he supported the ultimately defeated candidate Sergio Massa ( Frente Renovador ) and was acted as Minister of Economic Affairs in the shadow cabinet . He subsequently criticized President Macri's economic policy before deciding to run for office himself in 2019 . He stood as a candidate for the Consenso Federal 2030 alliance . His vice-presidential candidate was Juan-Manuel Urtubey. With this alliance, he stood against his former companion Sergio Massa and the Frente Renovador . Lavagna was supported by the former president Eduardo Duhalde and his wife Hilda Duhalde , who was also politically active . In the elections he came in third place with 6.16% of the vote.

Others

Lavagna is married and has three children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Clarín.com: Roberto Lavagna: de piloto de la crisis de 2002 a candidato moderado. October 14, 2007, Retrieved June 30, 2019 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ a b Noticias Unsam: Roberto Lavagna será doctor Honoris Causa por la UNSAM. August 31, 2017, accessed June 30, 2019 (European Spanish).
  3. ↑ a b c d Patrick Gillespie: Man Who Ushered in Argentina's Last Boom Eyes Presidency . April 9, 2019 ( bloomberg.com [accessed June 30, 2019]).
  4. ↑ a b c d La Nación: Roberto Lavagna: más que un bombero. December 30, 2003, Retrieved June 30, 2019 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Jens Glüsing: ARGENTINA: The crisis specialists . In: Spiegel Online . tape 51 , December 17, 2011 ( spiegel.de [accessed June 30, 2019]).
  6. ↑ RESULTADOS ELECCIONES PRESIDENCIALES DEL 28-10-2007 - NuevaMayoria.com. Retrieved June 30, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b c entrelíneas: Roberto Lavagna candidato: Quién es y qué tiene en la cabeza. March 26, 2019, Retrieved June 30, 2019 (Spanish).
  8. ↑ infobae: Una ex primera dama, un youtuber y un luchador: los candidatos de Roberto Lavagna. June 25, 2019, Retrieved June 30, 2019 (European Spanish).
  9. ↑ Clarín.com: Roberto Lavagna se distanció de Sergio Massa: "Ese no es mi proyecto". April 4, 2019, Retrieved June 30, 2019 (Spanish).
  10. ↑ infobae: "Chiche" Duhalde vuelve a la política: será candidata a senadora provincial por el espacio de Lavagna y Urtubey. June 23, 2019, accessed June 30, 2019 (European Spanish).
  11. ^ Elecciones 2019. Retrieved November 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lavagna, Roberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine politician, economist and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires