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Aníbal Ibarra (born March 1, 1958) is an
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lawyer and
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who served as mayor of Buenos Aires.


Biography

Ibarra was born in
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, a district located in the southern region of
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. His father was a Paraguayan member of the PLRA who left his country during the dictatorship of
Alfredo Stroessner Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda (; 3 November 1912 – 16 August 2006) was a Paraguayan politician, army general and Military dictatorship, military dictator who ruled as the 42nd president of Paraguay from 15 August 1954 until his overthrow in 19 ...
. He enrolled at the Instituto Libre de Segunda Enseñanza, a public college preparatory school, and earned a
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at the
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. He worked as a prosecutor in the
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, but resigned this job to participate in politics with as co-founder in 1990 of center-left party: the Frente Grande. His opposition to the pardons granted by President
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to leaders of the 1976–83 dictatorship convicted in the 1985 Trial of the Juntas led to Ibarra's dismissal as
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in 1991 by Solicitor General Oscar Roger. He was elected, however, to the Buenos Aires Deliberative Council that September, and in 1993 was named President of the Council. He was later elected as a member of the convention that oversaw the
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. Ibarra became a leading member of the Front for a Country in Solidarity (FrePaSo), an alliance formed in 1995 by the Frente Grande, the Socialist Party, and other center-left parties, becoming the first president of the
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upon its replacement of the Deliberative Council in 1997. Ibarra was elected on May 7, 2000, as Mayor of the Autonomous City of
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in the first round, defeating Domingo Cavallo, former Economy Minister of the country. He was re-elected mayor in
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, winning the run-off election against the center-right businessman
Mauricio Macri Mauricio Macri (; born 8 February 1959) is an Argentine businessman and politician who served as President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019. He has been the leader of the Republican Proposal (PRO) party since its founding in 2005. He previously ...
. He was supported by newly elected President
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, and became a leading "transversal" figure during the Kirchner presidency (allies of the president without belonging to his party). Some of Ibarra's most significant works as mayor include the expansion and refurbishment of the Pedro de Elizalde Children's Hospital, initiating construction on subway Line H, and the purchase of the derelict but architecturally significant CIAE power station, later converted into the ''Usina del Arte'' (Arts Powerhouse). On December 30, 2004, the República Cromagnon nightclub fire killed 194 people and raised a wave of accusations against political officials of the city. Ibarra was accused of tolerating or ignoring a lack of safety checks, of conducting the rescue operations improperly, and other charges. On November 14, 2005, an
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jury formed by a commission of the Buenos Aires Legislature suspended him for four months. He accused the opposition of manipulating the families of República Cromagnon's victims in order to ruin his career, and upon being notified of the suspension, he announced did not resign but await for the investigation to be concluded. The Executive Branch of Buenos Aires was in the meantime presided over by Vice-Mayor Jorge Telerman. On March 7, 2006, the impeachment jury commission ruled the dismissal of Ibarra as mayor of Buenos Aires. Of the 15 members of the commission, 10 voted for Ibarra's dismissal, 4 against, and one abstained. The accusers had additionally asked for a 10-year ban from public office duties, but the members of the commission only asked for 6 years at most, and finally did not decide on any sort of ban. In the City elections of June 2007, Ibarra's party list for the City Legislature gained second place and he and four other members of his coalition – the Popular Progressive Front – were elected for the term starting December 10, 2007, in support of President Kirchner's unsuccessful mayoral candidate, Daniel Filmus. Ibarra was reelected to the City Legislature in 2011. His sister,
Vilma Ibarra Vilma Lidia Ibarra (born 21 May 1960) is an Argentine lawyer and politician, formerly a Senator and National Deputy representing Buenos Aires. From 2019 to 2023, she served as the Legal and Technical Secretary of the Presidency under President ...
, is a National Deputy and former
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.


References

* Bloomberg, 7 March 2006
''Buenos Aires Mayor Ibarra Removed on Deadly Night Club Fire.''
* ''La Nación'', 7 March 2006
''Destituyeron a Ibarra.''
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