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Daniel Osvaldo Scioli (, ; born 13 January 1957) is an Argentine politician, sportsman, and businessman. He was
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from 2003 to 2007 and
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from 2011 to 2015. From 2020 to 2022 he was Argentina's ambassador to Brazil. Since 2022, he has been the country's
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in the cabinet of
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. He has also served two tenures as president of the
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. He was the candidate to the presidency for the
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ticket in the 2015 general elections, and lost to
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in a runoff election.


Family

Scioli was born in
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,
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. He spent his first years in a
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home located at the corner of Corrientes and Humboldt. His grandfather ran an electrical hardware store, which over time grew into a store selling electrical appliances that was to become the family business. Scioli has described himself as a loyal man devoted to his stable and intimate circle, and an understanding but demanding father. In 1975, his brother
José Scioli José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacul ...
was kidnapped by a cell of the
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guerrilla group. Daniel Scioli, then aged 18, carried out the negotiations with the kidnappers to free his brother. José was released in exchange for a cash payment by their father. He was married to former
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and entrepreneur
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and has an extramarital daughter, Lorena. Scioli refused to recognize his daughter, but he was eventually forced by law to recognize her. She was then accepted by Scioli as his daughter when she was 18 years old. Regarding this issue, he says, "It helped me to grow and to give me peace of mind. My relation with Lorena improved my life, and that’s why now I can also enjoy Father’s Day".


Education

Scioli attended Colegio Ward's primary school in
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, where he lived until he was 17 years old. For his secondary schooling, he graduated from the
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with a diploma in commercial expertise, having attained one of the three best grade averages. He started studies in
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at the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (U.A.D.E.) in
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; in October 2015 he graduated finishing his final exams. Scioli and Ricardo Orosco, head of the UADE, were denounced for a possible degree forgery, as several topics of study approved by him are no longer part of the scheduled studies.


Sports career

His interest in sports began at the Villa Crespo club. He took part in swimming, tennis, basketball and a form of badminton, representing his city in each. His passion for offshore powerboat racing took off when a friend invited him for a ride in a powerboat. Some time later he competed in his first Offshore Powerboat race in
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, in which he finished last. "This made me very angry, so I decided to train until I started winning, and finally ended up as the world champion," he states. Scioli started to compete in offshore powerboat racing in 1986 in 1987 he joined the Italian powerboat designer, builder and engineer
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who ran
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, one of the most successful powerboat racing teams in the world. On December 4, 1989, he lost his right arm in an accident while racing on the
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in the 1000 km Delta Argentino race. A wave produced by an oil tanker is believed to have overturned his boat. A fitted prosthesis enabled Scioli to pursue his love of
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. Even with this handicap he won many
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championships in various categories. On board La Gran Argentina, a
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-designed FB 55, Daniel Scioli was a three-time winner of the World Superboat USA Championship and captured 4 European titles. The boat's hull was modified in 2000 into a long-distance record setter. Scioli went on to set the Miami-Nassau-Miami record with an average speed of 100 mph.


Business career

In the field of business his activity was linked to the electrical appliances market. In 1991, the Swedish company
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, which had left the Argentine market on account of the country's instability, nominated him as the agent of its brand for Argentina. In 1994 Scioli encouraged the firm to re-establish in Argentina, an effort which gave rise to Electrolux Argentina, of which he became the
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, a post he held until 1997.


Political career

Scioli's political career took off in 1997, when he ran for a seat in the
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on behalf of the
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in the
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. He was elected and on December 10 of that year he became a
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in the
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. He 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
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vote. Having been re-elected as a
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in
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, in December 2001 he became a minister as the Secretary of Sports and Tourism. In 2003 the formula Kirchner-Scioli running on the
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ticket won the presidential election. Thus Scioli became Argentina's vice-president and the President of the Senate. In 2007, upon
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's retirement as president, Daniel Scioli was elected Governor of the
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, considered one of the most influential political jobs in Argentina. Following disappointing results for the ruling
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(FPV) in the June 28, 2009, mid-term elections, Scioli replaced Kirchner as President of the Justicialist Party (to which the FPV belongs). Scioli was the FPV candidate in the 2015 Argentine presidential election, and was endorsed by incumbent President
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. The initial polls pointed him as a favourite, with some predicting he would win enough votes to win outright and avoid a
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. However, he only narrowly won the first round, forcing him into a ballotage against Buenos Aires mayor
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. The ballotage round was held on November 22. Scioli narrowly lost to Macri, and conceded the race with 70% of the votes counted.


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