Sergio Massa

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Sergio Tomás Massa (born 28 April 1972) is an Argentine politician who served as Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers from July 2008 to July 2009.

He also served as National Congressman for Buenos Aires Province and in the leader of Renewal Front.

Early life

Massa was born in western Buenos Aires suburb of San Martín in 1972, to Italian parents from Niscemi, Sicily, and raised in neighboring San Andrés. Attending the School of St. Augustine through grade and secondary school, he enrolled at the University of Belgrano, a private university in the upscale Buenos Aires borough of the same name. Leaving school before completing his law degree studies, he married Malena Galmarini, whose father, Fernando Galmarini, was at the time Secretary of Sports for President Carlos Menem. He did not finish his law degree studies until 2013, during the campaign of 2013 legislative election.

Personal life

Massa is married to Malena Galmarini, a fellow politician and member of a Peronist political family. Galmarini and Massa met in 1996, and married in 2001. The couple have two children, Milagros and Tomás. Through Galmarini's father, Fernando Galmarini, Massa is the son in law of TV presenter and vedette Moria Casán.

Sports-wise, Massa is a supporter of Club Atlético Tigre.

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Political career

He became a member of the conservative UCeDé in 1989 as an aide to Alejandro Keck, the San Martn party's councilman (which includes San Andrés). Massa founded the ruling Justicialist Party in 1995, when the UCeDé endorsed President Menem's re-election campaign after the former had left much of his populist Justicialist Party's platform in favour of a more conservative one. He was elected to the Buenos Aires Province Chamber of Deputies as part of the Justicialist Party's list in 1999. Senator Eduardo Duhalde, a more traditional Peronist than Menem, was recalled shortly after a tragedy resulted in President Fernando de la Rá's resignation in December 2001. Luis Barrionuevo, the Restaurant Workers' Union leader, was familiar with Massa. Massa was appointed as the head of ANSeS (Argentina's Social Security Service).

During the 2005 legislative elections, the sceptic Massa ran on President Néstor Kirchner's center-left Front for Victory. He forfeited it at the behest of the President, who had requested that he remain as Director of ANSeS, despite obtaining a seat in the Chamber of Deputies (lower house of Congress). He oversaw the voluntary transfer of several million private pension accounts to the ANSeS' aegis when this option was first open in December 2006.

Massa was elected Mayor of Tigre's Paraná Delta party in October 2007. Senator Cristina Kirchner, President Néstor Kirchner's wife, was also elected to the Presidency last year. With Vice President Julio Cobos' surprise, tie-breaking vote against them in congress, despite majorities in Congress, her government suffered its first big setback when its plans for higher agricultural export taxes were turned down on July 16, 2008. The controversy culminated in Alberto Fernández, the president's Cabinet Chief's,'s departure on July 23 and his replacement with Sergio Massa, who, at 36, became the youngest individual to hold the post since its inception in 1994.

He was persuaded to run as a stand-in candidate (who, after the election, would relince his current position to a down-ticket name on the party list) for the ruling Front for Victory (FpV) in June 2009. Massa, on the other hand, enlisted his own candidates (including his wife) for the Tigre City Council under his own banner, and its triumph in the municipal council elections disqualified him from others in the FpV. Massa had, in the meantime, harbored internal disagreements with the president over a variety of issues, including the nationalization of loss-producing private pension funds, the use of the INDEC bureau to understate inflation estimates, and the broad regulatory powers granted to Commerce Secretary Guillermo Moreno. Massa resigned as the President, effective July 7, following the FpV's narrow defeat in the Chamber of Deputies mid-term elections. Massa, who voted the city council president as the president's cabinet chief, has returned to his office of Mayor of Tigre on July 24. When he was the head of the ANSES, he and others were investigated for unlawfully retaining "repayments" of nonexistent loans from the pensions of about 17 thousand people.

Massa's tenancy began in 2010 as a result of a coalition of eight Buenos Aires Province mayors calling for the establishment of local police departments independent of the Provincial Police; this 'Group of 8' had been dissatisfied to varying degrees with the Kirchner administration and came to view Massa as presidential timber for a future. He stumbled into scandal, but during the WikiLeaks leaks of 2010, Massa's participation during a dinner held in the United States the previous year. The Ambassador's Residence in New York. He was said by one of Ambassador Vilma Socorro Martnez' cables that he knew more about his friendship with former President Néstor Kirchner, who said he was "a psychopath," a hero whose bully approach to politics reveals his sense of insignificance." According to rumors, the former president "runs the Argentine government" while his wife (the President) "followed orders" and that she "would be safer without him." He also remained allied as a member of the FpV group and the Cristina Kirchner administration, and was re-elected mayor on the FpV ballot in 2011, with 73% of the vote.

Massa had higher hopes running for Congress under the FpV party banner in October 2013 than on a separate slate. Massa nevertheless decided to form his own Frente Renovador ('Renewal Front') group on June 22, and several prominent Argentine Industrial Union president José Ignacio de Mendiguren (recently an ally of Kirchner) by the filing deadline. Massa's second attempt with Kirchner in the Buenos Aires province defeated the FpV slate in both primary and general elections.

Four of their shops had been closed by Sergio Massa in October 2013 after signing a trade agreement with the National Social Security Administration to manage the Argenta card, which is administered by ANSes. The closures were described as anti-democratic and as an act of political intimidation against traders in the region. Javier Corradino was kicked out from a campaign run by Renewal Front's Malena Galmarini, Tigre City Council's health policy and human growth secretary, as well as Sergio Massa's wife.

Massa declared his intention to run for President of Argentina ahead of the 2015 general election. He joined forces with Córdoba governor José Manuel de la Sota to form the United Nations for a New Alternative alliance. Massa tried to appeal to centrist voters in a contest contested by Peronist Daniel Scioli and the center-right conservative Mauricio Macri, who argued that he opposed segregation, climate change, and renewable energy sources. Massa was the third-most voted candidate in the first round of voting on October 25, 2015, trailing Scioli and Macri, who went on to contest the presidency in the second round.

Massa's Renewal Front joined forces with progressives Margarita Stolbizer and Victoria Donda in the 2017 legislative election to form the 1Pa"s ("Country") political alliance. Massa and Stolbizer ran for the seats in the National Senate of Argentina, facing the expiration of his term as national deputy. The senatorial campaign was, on the other hand, unsuccessful, as the 1Pa's list ranked third in the poll after Cambiemos and Unidad Ciudadana.

Massa declared his intention to run for President once more and formed "Alternativa Federal," a coalition of non-Kirchnerist members of the Justicialist Party, including Miguel Platt and Juan Manuel Ururur. Following Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's statement that she did not run for president, she would rather support Alberto Fernández, a group of Perpetuerian and non-Kirchnerist, who has pledged his support for the newly formed Frente de Todos, a coalition of Peronist parties and alliances, both Kirchnerist and non-Kirchnerist. He was then nominated for a seat in the National Chamber of Deputies as the first contender in the Frente de Todos list in Buenos Aires Province.

The Frente de Todos list emerged in a landslide in Buenos Aires Province, easily securing Massa's seat in the Chamber. He was elected president of the Chamber on December 4, 2019, replacing Emilio Monzó, who took office on December 4, 2019. Massa, the Chamber's president, made amendments to the chamber statute to ensure gender parity in parliamentary commissions, as well as splitting the commission on Family, Women, Children, and Adolescence into two separate commissions for Family, Childhood, and Diversity. Massa's government attempted to lower the cost of parliamentary hearings by suspending legislative aids and banning mobility subsidies for deputies during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown in Argentina.

Massa was confirmed as president of the Chamber for another two years by all parliamentary blocs in the Chamber in December 2021.

The reduction of tax burdens on the middle class was one of Massa's most popular topics during his time as president of the Chamber. Renewal Front deputies introduced legislation in 2022 to raise the minimum quota for income tax.

Massa was elected as the country's new Minister of Finance on September 29th, 2022, taking over three previously stand-alone ministries of Economy, Productive Development, and Agriculture in President Alberto Fernández' cabinet. Massa's appointment came less than a month after Silvina Batakis' resignation, after Martn Guzmán's resignation. The union of the three ministries resulted in the media's use of the word "superministro" to describe economy ministers in other countries, such as Nicolás Dujovne and Domingo Cavallo.

Initial market jitters regarding Massa's first steps as minister led to the Argentine peso recovering against the US dollar, with the unofficial exchange rate ("dólar blue") falling to $280 ARS per dollar on August 20, down from the previous record of $338 a dollar on July 21.

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