1. Daniel Scioli currently serves as the Secretary of Tourism, Environment and Sports since January 2024.
19 Facts About Daniel Scioli
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Daniel Scioli was Vice President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007 and Governor of Buenos Aires Province from 2007 to 2015.
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Daniel Scioli has served two tenures as president of the Justicialist Party.
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Daniel Scioli was the candidate to the presidency for the Front for Victory ticket in the 2015 general elections, and lost to Mauricio Macri in a runoff election.
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Daniel Scioli spent his first years in a middle class home located at the corner of Corrientes and Humboldt.
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Daniel Scioli's grandfather ran an electrical hardware store, which over time grew into a store selling electrical appliances that was to become the family business.
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In 1975, his brother Jose Daniel Scioli was kidnapped by a cell of the Montoneros guerrilla group.
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Daniel Scioli was married to former model and entrepreneur Karina Rabolini and has an extramarital daughter.
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Daniel Scioli was then accepted by Scioli as his daughter when she was 18 years old.
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Daniel Scioli attended Colegio Ward's primary school in Villa Sarmiento, where he lived until he was 17 years old.
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Daniel Scioli took part in swimming, tennis, basketball and a form of badminton, representing his city in each.
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Daniel Scioli started to compete in offshore powerboat racing in 1986 in 1987 he joined the Italian powerboat designer, builder and engineer Fabio Buzzi who ran FB Design, one of the most successful powerboat racing teams in the world.
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On board La Gran Argentina, a Fabio Buzzi-designed FB 55, Daniel Scioli was a three-time winner of the World Superboat USA Championship and captured 4 European titles.
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In 1994 Daniel Scioli encouraged the firm to re-establish in Argentina, an effort which gave rise to Electrolux Argentina, of which he became the director, a post he held until 1997.
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Daniel Scioli was nominated president of the Sports Committee of the House for a two-year tenure, a nomination that was renewed for another two-year period on the basis of a unanimous vote.
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In 2003 the formula Kirchner-Daniel Scioli running on the Front for Victory ticket won the presidential election.
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In 2007, upon Nestor Kirchner's retirement as president, Daniel Scioli was elected Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, considered one of the most influential political jobs in Argentina.
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Daniel Scioli was the FPV candidate in the 2015 Argentine presidential election, and was endorsed by incumbent President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
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On 30 January 2024 Daniel Scioli was designated by the government of President Javier Milei to become the Secretary of Tourism, Environment and Sport.