86 Facts About Mauricio Macri

Mauricio Macri is an Argentine businessman and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019.

Mauricio Macri has been the leader of the Republican Proposal party since its founding in 2005.

Mauricio Macri previously served as 5th Chief of Government of Buenos Aires from 2007 to 2015, and was a member of the Chamber of Deputies representing Buenos Aires from 2005 to 2007.

Mauricio Macri served as president of football club Boca Juniors from 1994 to 2007, reestablishing its profitability which raised his public profile.

The presidency of Mauricio Macri focused on reforming the national economy and improving diplomatic relations.

Mauricio Macri moved from a fixed exchange-rate system to a floating one, and removed taxes on exports and reduced subsidies on energy to reduce the fiscal deficit.

Mauricio Macri aligned the country with gradualist neoliberalism and re-opened Argentina to international markets by lifting currency controls, restructuring sovereign debt, and pressing free-market solutions.

Mauricio Macri strongly opposed the government of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela for human rights abuses and called for a restoration of democracy in the country.

Mauricio Macri recognized Juan Guaido, who was elected President of Venezuela by the National Assembly during the Venezuelan presidential crisis of 2019.

Mauricio Macri improved the relations with the United States and from Mercosur achieved a free trade agreement with the European Union and closer ties with the Pacific Alliance.

Mauricio Macri's presidency has been praised for leaving a legacy of anti-corruption and increasing Argentina's sovereign marketability, but has been criticized for failing to materially reform the economy, falling short of containing inflation and building up external debt.

Mauricio Macri was born in Tandil in the province of Buenos Aires, the son of Italian-born tycoon Francesco "Franco" Mauricio Macri and Alicia Blanco-Villegas Cinque.

Mauricio Macri preferred his uncle's company to constant scrutiny by his father.

Mauricio Macri was educated at Colegio Cardenal Newman, and received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina.

Mauricio Macri joined Socma Group the same year, and became its general manager in 1985.

Mauricio Macri intended to run for chairman of sports club Boca Juniors in 1991, but his father convinced him to keep working at Sevel.

Mauricio Macri tried to buy the Deportivo Espanol team, but could not get support from the team's board of directors.

Mauricio Macri supported Boca Juniors, paying coach Cesar Luis Menotti's salary and buying players for the team.

Mauricio Macri instructed aide Orlando Salvestrini to work with Mauricio for two reasons: to help him and to monitor his activities.

Mauricio Macri met with former Boca Juniors chairmen Antonio Alegre and Carlos Heller, and tried to convince them to work with him; both rebuffed him.

Mauricio Macri later sought the support of other groups in Boca Juniors, eventually winning the team's internal elections in 1995 with 7,058 votes.

Mauricio Macri arranged for the Boca Juniors institution to operate on the stock exchange, selling shares of active football players owned by the club.

Mauricio Macri has been trying to reform the Argentine soccer statutes for almost two decades to allow clubs to become sports limited companies.

In 1991, Mauricio Macri was kidnapped for 12 days by officers of the Argentine Federal Police.

Mauricio Macri has said that the ordeal led him to enter politics.

Mauricio Macri entered politics in 2003, founding the centre-right party Commitment to Change.

Mauricio Macri immediately backed out of his pact with Sobisch and remained neutral during the national election, which was won by Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of the Front for Victory.

In February 2007, Mauricio Macri announced that he would run again for mayor of Buenos Aires, heading the PRO slate with Gabriela Michetti.

Mauricio Macri's administration worked on public transport in an attempt to reduce auto traffic in Buenos Aires.

Mauricio Macri proposed the Red de Expresos Regionales project to link the city's main railway terminals and lines with a series of tunnels; as of 2018, in the term of his successor Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, the project is still in the planning stages.

The national government sought to transfer it to the city, which Mauricio Macri supported, but the budget and length of the transition period were contested.

Mauricio Macri announced that the city would take over the underground on 13 November 2012.

Mauricio Macri unsuccessfully tried to negotiate a transfer with President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

Elisa Carrio, leader of the Civic Coalition, thought that Mauricio Macri had abandoned the transfer request, and Ibarra said that the forces' duties would overlap.

Mauricio Macri's appointment was controversial; Palacios had been investigated for concealing evidence of the 1994 AMIA bombing, and he resigned a short time later.

Mauricio Macri did not appeal the ruling, saying that same-sex marriage was becoming universally accepted and individuals had a right to happiness.

Mauricio Macri compared the controversy with the sanctioning of divorce during the 1980s after the restoration of democracy in Argentina; highly controversial at first, it was eventually accepted.

Mauricio Macri declined this proposal, kept Vidal as the party's candidate for governor, and Massa ran for president with his own party.

Scioli and Mauricio Macri were polarized about the presidency of Cristina Kirchner; Scioli wanted to keep most Kirchnerite policies, and Mauricio Macri wanted to change them.

Mauricio Macri preferred a single debate, and opted for the one organized by Argentina Debate.

Mauricio Macri criticized Scioli for negative campaigning by the FPV.

Several politicians and FPV institutions had issued warnings about what might happen if Mauricio Macri were elected president.

Mauricio Macri's election ended a dozen years of Kirchnerism in Argentina.

Mauricio Macri owed his victory to Cordoba, the second-largest province, swinging dramatically to support him; he carried the province by over 930,000 votes in the second round, far exceeding his nationwide margin of 680,600 votes.

On 11 August 2019, Mauricio Macri scored the primary election which gave him renomination as his party's candidate in the 2019 general election.

Mauricio Macri announced his cabinet on 25 November 2015, about two weeks before he was due to take office.

Mauricio Macri took the oath of office at the National Congress of Argentina after Vice President Gabriela Michetti.

Mauricio Macri delivered a 27-minute speech pledging "support for an independent judiciary, to fight corruption and drug trafficking, the internal union of Argentina, universal social protection, a 21st-century style of education and for everyone to have a roof, water and sewer" and greeted his electoral rivals.

Mauricio Macri later went to the Casa Rosada and received the presidential sash in the White Hall from Senate President Federico Pinedo, accompanied by Michetti, Chamber of Deputies President Emilio Monzo and Supreme Court President Ricardo Lorenzetti.

Mauricio Macri called on "all Argentines to follow [his] administration and alert them when [the government] makes mistakes".

Mauricio Macri began his presidency with economic difficulties carried over from previous governments.

Mauricio Macri wanted to negotiate with holdouts and end the default to return to the international capital markets and strengthen the national economy.

On 19 January 2016, Mauricio Macri attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with opposition figure Sergio Massa and part of his cabinet, in a search for investors.

Mauricio Macri was one of the best-known figures at the meeting, along with Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and US vice president Joe Biden.

Mauricio Macri replaced him with Luis Caputo, and merged the ministries of treasury and finances into a single ministry led by Nicolas Dujovne.

Mauricio Macri maintained a distant relation with those organizations, and did not seek their support, but did not openly confront them.

Mauricio Macri's cabinet was divided on an approach to take: whether to directly confront the organizations and remove their state financing, or to take an active role in their activities and replace their leaders with less politically motivated figures.

Mauricio Macri said during the 2018 opening of the National Congress that, although he was anti-abortion, he wanted the Congress to have an abortion debate and discuss a bill for a new abortion law.

Mauricio Macri hosted him in early 2018 and hailed him as a hero.

Mauricio Macri immediately proposed action against Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela for human-rights abuses and to remove that country from Mercosur.

Mauricio Macri agreed with Brazilian president Michel Temer to guarantee free trade between their countries.

Mauricio Macri removed the Order of the Liberator General San Martin award from Maduro.

Furthermore, during the Venezuelan uprising attempt of April 2019, Mauricio Macri supported anti-Maduro military forces and reiterated his position of recognizing Guaido as legitimate President of Venezuela.

Mauricio Macri tried to remain in good terms with the US after the Trump was elected president.

Mauricio Macri maintained the Argentine claim in the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute.

Mauricio Macri changed Argentina's position on conflicts in the Middle East.

Mauricio Macri distanced himself from Iran and encouraged continued investigations of the AMIA bombing and the death of Alberto Nisman, a prosecutor investigating the case.

Mauricio Macri further improved relations with Israel and in September 2017, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu became the first Israeli Prime Minister to ever visit Argentina.

In July 2019, Mauricio Macri designated Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in relation to the Israeli embassy bombing, and especially related to the AMIA bombing.

Mauricio Macri left the PJ to avoid the primary elections and created a new party, Citizen's Unity.

Mauricio Macri was charged in a 2010 wiretapping case, suspected of spying on Burstein and his brother-in-law Nestor Daniel Leonardo.

Mauricio Macri was listed as a director of Fleg Trading from 1998 to 2009.

Mauricio Macri did not declare his involvement in 2007, when he became mayor, or in 2015, when he became president.

Prosecutor Federico Delgado asked the judiciary to determine if Mauricio Macri "maliciously failed to complete his tax declaration".

Mauricio Macri argued that he did not report his involvement because he was not a stakeholder and did not receive money from it.

Mauricio Macri was established by his father to run a failed Brazilian business.

Mauricio Macri owns other foreign accounts with properly-disclosed transactions, and said that he would file a judicial "declaration of certainty" to affirm his statements.

On 20 September 2017, civil judge Andres Fraga determined that, in Fleg Trading Ltd, Mauricio Macri accepted the position of director for the sole and only effect of designating a replacement and resigning, and that in Kagemusha he did not even tacitly accept the position of director for which he was appointed by Franco Macri.

Mauricio Macri opposed activist Milagro Sala, accusing her of leading a government parallel to that of Eduardo Fellner.

Mauricio Macri said that the case was under provincial, not federal, jurisdiction.

The government of Mauricio Macri immediately recognized the legitimacy of the interim presidency of Jeanine Anez and denied Morales asylum and blocked Argentine air space for Morales's airplane to fly over Argentina in the bid to escape Bolivia to seek asylum in Mexico.

Mauricio Macri's lawyer pointed that anti-riot weapons would be useless for the aviation military, and would have made no sense for Lara to request them.

Mauricio Macri began a romance with Maria Laura Groba which did not lead to marriage.

Mauricio Macri left Groba in 2010, after which began a relationship with businesswoman Juliana Awada and married Awada that year.

Mauricio Macri accidentally swallowed the moustache, and Minister of Health Jorge Lemus performed first aid to save his life.

Mauricio Macri is a very good bridge player and represented Argentina at the 45th World Bridge Team Championships in 2022.