17 Facts About Gabriela Michetti

Gabriela Michetti is the second woman to serve as vice president, 40 years after Isabel Peron left that office.

Gabriela Michetti was Deputy Chief of Government in Buenos Aires from 2007 to 2009.

Gabriela Michetti was National Deputy from 2009 to 2013 and served as National Senator for the City of Buenos Aires since 2013 to 2015.

Gabriela Michetti is a great-grandniece of former Argentine president Arturo Umberto Illia.

Marta Gabriela Michetti Illia was born in 1965 in the Buenos Aires Province town of Laprida into a family of Italian background.

Gabriela Michetti earned a degree in International Relations at the Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, in 1988.

Gabriela Michetti completed a master's degree in Business Management and Integration in the UCES between 1993 and 1994 plus a specialization course on dispute settlement in the WTO, in Geneva, Switzerland in 2000; and a career specialization in University Management at the University of Ottawa, Canada in 2001.

Gabriela Michetti joined the Commitment to Change party led by Mauricio Macri in 2003.

Gabriela Michetti gained recognition in 2006 while leading the inquiry committee looking into alleged negligence after a fire at the Republica Cromagnon nightclub led to the deaths of 194 people.

Gabriela Michetti directed two planning committees, Programa Puertas del Bicentenario and the Consejo de Planeamiento Estrategico, and drew from her personal tragedy to lead the newly created Commission for the Inclusion and Full Participation of Persons with Disabilities.

Ahead of the 2009 elections for Congress, Gabriela Michetti's name was frequently mentioned as a likely candidate for National Deputy, despite serving less than two years in municipal government.

Gabriela Michetti rejected to run for vice president under Macri in the 2015 national elections, and tried to run for mayor of Buenos Aires instead.

On 22 November 2015, after Cambiemos won the first ballotage in Argentina's history, Gabriela Michetti became Vice President-elect of Argentina.

Gabriela Michetti took office on 10 December 2015, along with President-elect Mauricio Macri, taking an oath before the President.

Gabriela Michetti greeted those who were his competitors during the presidential elections.

Gabriela Michetti has one son and had a long relationship with the journalist Eduardo Cura.

Gabriela Michetti is a staunch Roman Catholic and an opponent of abortion legalization and same-sex marriages in her country.