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Julián Andrés Domínguez (born 24 November 1963) is an Argentine
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politician of the
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. He was twice Minister of Agriculture, in the cabinets of presidents Alberto Fernández (2021–2022) and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2009–2011). From 2011 to 2015, he was
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of the
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Early life and career

Domínguez was born in the
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town of
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, located in the heart of the Pampas and the Argentine
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belt. His grandparents were smallholders, and made artisanal honey, jams, and cheeses. His mother, Nélida Olivetto, raised young Julián as a
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, and worked at the grade school he attended. He enrolled at the
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and entered Law School, though without ultimately earning a degree. He married Claudia Moreno, with whom he had four children and adopted a fifth. Domínguez entered public service in 1989 as head of the board of advisors of the Buenos Aires Province Social Security Institute. He later joined the national Ministry of Health under President
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as chief youth policy advisor, and in 1993, was named chief policy advisor to Interior Minister (
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Political career


Local and provincial politics

He returned to Chacabuco in 1994 and was elected '' intendente'' (mayor) the following year on the ruling
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(
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) ticket. Domínguez was elected to the Lower House of Congress in 1999, but forfeited his seat following an offer for the post of provincial Public Works Minister by Ruckauf, who had been elected Governor of Buenos Aires. He was influential in the governor's 2001 decision to rescind the province's water service concession granted several years earlier to Azurix, a local
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subsidiary. The precipitous resignation of President Fernando de la Rúa at the end of 2001 and his eventual replacement by a leading Peronist figure,
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, brought Domínguez to the Casa Rosada as the President's Assistant Chief of Staff. He served mainly in a parliamentary liaison capacity in this post, and the election of Néstor Kirchner to the Presidency in 2003 took Domínguez to an important Defense Ministry post, where he served as liaison between the
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and the remaining, civilian arms of the
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. He was elected to the Buenos Aires Province Legislature in 2003, and his work with Ruckauf and Duhalde, both former governors who still wielded influence in the provincial capital, helped result in Domínguez's prompt election as the body's Justicialist Party caucus
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. He became prominent in the Judiciary Committee, becoming its Chairman and the Vice President of the Lower House itself following his reelection in 2007.


Minister of Agriculture and later work

Fallout from the
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over a proposed rise in export tariffs led to a number of changes in the executive branch, including the creation that year of a Production Ministry and, on 30 September 2009, the reinstatement of the Agriculture Secretariat as a (cabinet-level) ministry, a prominence the post had not enjoyed since 1981. Supported by Presidential Chief of Staff Aníbal Fernández, Domínguez was tapped for the post and sworn in on 1 October. Pending, however, were improvements in strained relations between the center-left administration of President
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and (among others) nation's important
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, whose leading figures approved of her decision to reinstate the Agriculture Ministry, but expressed skepticism at the appointment to the post of a legislator with no farming experience, and who had recently supported a hike in provincial farm income taxes. Domínguez's tenure saw the federal government regain the initiative to some extent vis-à-vis the agrarian sector. The contentious entity regulating
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, ONCCA, was dissolved in 2011; and the proposed return to a Federal Grain Board (such as the one prevailing in Argentina between 1935 and the creation of ONCCA in 1996), as well as the revival of the Federal Agrarian Council of provincial officials dealing with the sector, succeeded in dividing the powerful agrarian lobby round table, the ''Mesa de Enlace''. He was elected to the
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in
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, he was named president of the body on 6 December. In 2021, he was once again appointed as Minister of Agriculture, this time under President Alberto Fernández in replacement of Luis Basterra. Domínguez's appointment was part of a cabinet reshuffle following the government's poor showings in the 2021 legislative primary elections.


References

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