Sergio Massa

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Sergio Massa

Sergio Massa (born April 28, 1972 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine politician and currently mayor of the city of Tigre and a member of the House of Representatives. From July 2008 to July 2009 he was cabinet minister under Cristina Fernández de Kirchner . Since 2013 he has led the Peronist-oriented Frente Renovador party .

Life

Sergio Massa studied law at the Belgrano University , but left it without a degree. He then married Malena Galmarini, daughter of Fernando Galmarini , former Sports Minister of Argentina under President Carlos Menem . From January 2002 he was head of the Argentine social security. There he promoted the current Vice President of the country Amado Boudou to Finance Director of Social Security.

politics

In the 2005 elections, Massa won a seat in the House of Representatives on the list of Frente para la Victoria of then President Nestor Kirchner . At the request of the president, however, he renounced this seat in order to remain head of social security.

On December 10, 2007, Massa was elected mayor of Tigre.

After a vote defeat in July 2008, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner dismissed her head of cabinet Alberto Fernández and gave this post to Sergio Massa. This had to let his office as mayor rest. After the mid-term elections in July 2009, which were disappointing for the Frente para la Victoria , Massa resigned as head of cabinet and from then on worked again as mayor of Tigre.

In the 2013 House of Representatives elections, Massa ran his own list, Frente Renovador . He immediately succeeded in gaining the most votes in the country's largest province - Buenos Aires. He remained a member of parliament until 2017. In the 2015 presidential elections , he stood for the newly founded alliance Una nueva Alternativa and won 21.4% of the votes in the first ballot. As third place behind Daniel Scioli and Mauricio Macri , he did not reach the runoff election.

In 2017 he ran unsuccessfully for a post in the Senate. In 2019 he decided to join the electoral alliance Frente de Todos with the Frente Renovador and to support the ultimately victorious candidacy of Alberto Fernández and Cristina Fernández. Since December 2019 he has been Chairman of the House of Commons ( Cámara de Diputados ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Argentine president appoints new chief of cabinet . Xinhua . Retrieved November 8, 2013.
  2. ^ Members of Cabinet Are Replaced in Argentina . New York Times . Retrieved November 8, 2013.
  3. ^ Election in Argentina: defeat for Kirchner government . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Retrieved November 8, 2013.
  4. ↑ 22 De Octubre De 2017: Sergio Massa terminó tercero en Tigre y San Fernando. Retrieved June 22, 2019 (European Spanish).
  5. ↑ Fernández acordó con Sergio Massa, sin descartar internas. Retrieved October 24, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Miguel Jorquera: Sergio Massa ya es presidente de la Cámara de Diputados. In: Página December 12 , 2019, accessed April 16, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Massa, Sergio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires