27 Facts About Sergio Massa

Previously, Massa served as the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers from 2008 to 2009 under Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

Sergio Massa held the role of intendente of Tigre twice and served as the Executive Director of ANSES, Argentina's decentralized state social insurance agency.

Sergio Massa did not finish his law degree studies until 2013, during the campaign for the 2013 legislative election.

Sergio Massa became affiliated to the conservative UCeDe in 1989 as an aide to Alejandro Keck, councilman for the San Martin partido.

Sergio Massa joined the ruling Justicialist Party in 1995, when the UCeDe endorsed the re-election of President Menem after the latter had sidestepped much of his populist Justicialist Party's platform in favor of a more conservative one.

The pragmatic Sergio Massa ran on President Nestor Kirchner's center-left Front for Victory ticket during the 2005 legislative elections.

Sergio Massa was elected Mayor of the Parana Delta partido of Tigre in October 2007.

Sergio Massa was persuaded to run as a stand-in candidate for the ruling Front for Victory ahead of the June 2009 mid-term elections.

Sergio Massa enlisted his own candidates for the Tigre City Council under his own ticket, and its success in these city council races distanced him from others in the FpV.

Sergio Massa was investigated along with other officials for the illegal retention of "repayments" of nonexistent loans from the pensions of about 17 thousand retired while he was director of the ANSES.

In 2010, Sergio Massa joined a group of eight Buenos Aires Province mayors in calling for the establishment of local police departments independent of the Provincial Police; this 'Group of 8' had become disaffected to varying degrees with the Kirchner government, and came to view Sergio Massa as presidential timber for a future date.

Sergio Massa stumbled into controversy when the WikiLeaks disclosures of 2010 mentioned a number of indiscretions on Massa's part during a dinner hosted the previous year at the US Ambassador's Residence.

Ahead of the 2015 general election, Sergio Massa announced his intention to run for President of Argentina.

Sergio Massa joined forces with Cordoba governor Jose Manuel de la Sota to form the United for a New Alternative alliance.

Sergio Massa sought to appeal to centrist voters in an election disputed by the Peronist Daniel Scioli and the centre-right conservative Mauricio Macri, and focused his campaign on the fight against corruption, climate change, and development through renewable energy sources.

Ahead of the 2019 general election, Sergio Massa made public his intention to run for President and launched "Alternativa Federal", a coalition with other non-Kirchnerist members of the Justicialist Party such as Miguel Angel Pichetto and Juan Manuel Urtubey.

However, following the announcement of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner that she would not run for President, but would instead back Alberto Fernandez, Sergio Massa stood down from the race and pledged his support for the newly formed Frente de Todos, a coalition of Peronist parties and alliances, both Kirchnerist and non-Kirchnerist.

Sergio Massa was then nominated to run for a seat in the National Chamber of Deputies as the first candidate in the Frente de Todos list in Buenos Aires Province.

In December 2021, Sergio Massa was ratified as president of the Chamber for another two years by all parliamentary blocs in the Chamber.

On 29 July 2022, Sergio Massa was designated as the country's new Minister of Economy, taking over three previously stand-alone ministries of Economy, Productive Development and Agriculture in the cabinet of President Alberto Fernandez.

Sergio Massa's designation came less than a month after Silvina Batakis' appointment, following the resignation of Martin Guzman.

On 23 June 2023, Sergio Massa was announced as the presidential candidate of the new Union por la Patria coalition, with Cabinet Chief Agustin Rossi as his running mate.

Sergio Massa was endorsed by President Fernandez, vice president Cristina Kirchner, and other majoritarian sectors of the Peronist coalition.

Sergio Massa won a primary election for the coalition's nomination against social leader Juan Grabois of the Patria Grande Front on 13 August 2023.

Sergio Massa is married to Malena Galmarini, a fellow politician, and a member of a Peronist political family.

Galmarini and Sergio Massa met in 1996 and married in 2001.

Sergio Massa is a supporter of the football club Club Atletico Tigre.