Mauricio Macri

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Mauricio Macri (born 1959-02-08) is a Deputy representing the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina in the Lower House of the Argentine Congress. He is married and has three children.

Macri was born in Tandil, in the province of Buenos Aires, and studied at the Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA), where he received a Bachelor 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 bussiness corporation managed by his father Franco Macri. During the time he managed Sevel, he was accused of fraud, consisting of importation and re-exportation of auto parts to Uruguay with the sole porpouse of earning state subsides for exported products. He gained recognition as president of one of the most popular football clubs of 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 2003 Macri made his political debut when he ran for Head of Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires with his 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 Argentine 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 center-right electoral front called Propuesta Republicana (known as PRO) and sits in the PRO block of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies. He is also in discussions with Jorge Sobisch, centre-right govenor of Neuquén Province, ahead of the 2007 elections.

In February 2007 he announced that he will run once again for Head of Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires in the May 2007 elections.

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• Propuesta Republicana - Official website of PRO.