Verónica María Magario (born 26 May 1969) is an
Argentine
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politician, currently serving as Vice Governor of
Buenos Aires Province
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, alongside
Governor
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Axel Kicillof
Axel Kicillof (, born 25 September 1971) is an Argentine Peronist economist and politician who has been Governor of Buenos Aires since 2019.
Kicillof completed an ideological turn, from teaching Marxist economics to the doctrine of Perón, join ...
, since 10 December 2019. From 2015 to 2019, Magario was ''
intendente
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'' (mayor) of
La Matanza
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, the most populous ''
partido'' in the
Greater Buenos Aires
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metropolitan area.
She was also a
National Deputy from 2013 to 2015, and member of the La Matanza city council from 2011 to 2013.
Early life and education
Verónica María Magario was born on 26 May 1969 in
Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz
Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz (; usually called just Santa Fe) is the capital city of the provinces of Argentina, province of Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe, Argentina. It is situated in north-eastern Argentina, near the junction of the Paraná River, ...
, in
Santa Fe Province
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. Her parents were María Eugenia Calderón, a school teacher, and Raúl Magario, a member of
Montoneros
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and the organization's financial administrator.
She spent most of her childhood in
San Isidro and
Ramos Mejía
Ramos Mejía is a Town in La Matanza Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The town has an area of and a population of 98,547. The city is one of the largest commercial districts in the Western Zone of Greater Buenos Aires.
History
The l ...
, but after the
1976 coup d'état, her family was forced into exile in
Mexico
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, where she lived for eight years.
The family returned to Argentina in 1984, after the fall of the
last military dictatorship, and Raúl Magario was imprisoned; he was released in 1989 following a pardon issued by president
Carlos Menem
Carlos Saúl Menem (2 July 1930 – 14 February 2021) was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999. Ideologically, he identified as a Peronist and supported economically liberal policies. H ...
. Magario attended the
Otto Krause Technical School and graduated with a technical degree on chemistry, which she used to work as a high school teacher.
She began studying mathematics at the
University of Buenos Aires
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, hoping to eventually attain a ''
licenciatura
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It may be similar to a master's degree when issued by pontifical universities and other universities in Europe, Latin Am ...
'' and attend the
Balseiro Institute
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to become a
nuclear physicist
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, but she had to drop out as her studies interfered with her burgeoning political career.
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Political career
Magario started working at the Argentine Chamber of Deputies
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in 1988, where she met national deputy Alberto Balestrini
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and became an advisor in his legislative office. Concurrently, she became a union delegate at the ''Asociación del Personal Legislativo'' (legislative workers' union).[
She accompanied Balestrini upon his election as ''intendente'' of La Matanza in 1999, holding a number of municipal posts. She remained in the municipal government when Balestrini was succeeded by Fernando Espinoza in 2005, becoming his deputy chief of staff in 2006.
In ]2011
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she was elected to the La Matanza city council, which she went on to preside.[ Magario was the third candidate in the ]Front for Victory
The Front for Victory ( es, Frente para la Victoria, FPV) was a centre-left Peronist electoral alliance in Argentina, and is formally a faction of the Justicialist Party. Former presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner wer ...
list to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies
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at the 2013 legislative election; she was elected and sworn in on 10 December 2013.
Mayor of La Matanza
At the 2015 municipal election, running as the Front for Victory
The Front for Victory ( es, Frente para la Victoria, FPV) was a centre-left Peronist electoral alliance in Argentina, and is formally a faction of the Justicialist Party. Former presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner wer ...
's mayoral candidate, Magario received 47.54% of the vote, defeating the Cambiemos
( en, Together for Change) is a centre-right political coalition in Argentina. It was created in 2015 as Cambiemos ( en, Let's Change), and renamed in 2019. It is composed of Republican Proposal, Radical Civic Union, Civic Coalition ARI and ...
candidate by over 20 points. She succeeded Fernando Espinoza on 12 December 2015 to become La Matanza's first woman mayor. As mayor, she rejected the proposal to split the ''partido'' introduced by GEN
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provincial deputy Marcelo Díaz.
She was the first Citizen's Unity
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This coalition existed in the provinces of B ...
candidate for the La Matanza city council at the 2017 legislative election; the candidacy was unsuccessfully denounced as "testimonial
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" before the provincial Electoral Tribunal.
Vice governor of Buenos Aires
Ahead of the 2019 general election, Magario was chosen as Axel Kicillof
Axel Kicillof (, born 25 September 1971) is an Argentine Peronist economist and politician who has been Governor of Buenos Aires since 2019.
Kicillof completed an ideological turn, from teaching Marxist economics to the doctrine of Perón, join ...
's running mate in the Frente de Todos
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Fernández won the 2019 gene ...
list for the governorship of Buenos Aires. The Kicillof–Magario ticket won 52.15% of the vote, against incumbent governor María Eugenia Vidal
María Eugenia Vidal (born 8 September 1973) is an Argentine politician who served as Governor of the Buenos Aires Province, being the first woman in the office, and the first non- Peronist since 1987. A member of Republican Proposal (PRO), she ...
's 38.49%. She took office alongside Kicillof on 11 December 2019.
References
External links
Official website
(in Spanish)
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1969 births
Living people
Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Buenos Aires Province
Women members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies
Mayors of La Matanza, Buenos Aires
Vice Governors of Buenos Aires Province
People from Santa Fe, Argentina
People from Ramos Mejía
Argentine expatriates in Mexico
21st-century Argentine politicians
21st-century Argentine women politicians