Aníbal Fernández | |
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Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers of Argentina | |
In office 26 February 2015 – 10 December 2015 |
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President | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
Preceded by | Jorge Capitanich |
Succeeded by | Marcos Peña |
In office 8 July 2009 – 10 December 2011 |
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President | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
Preceded by | Sergio Massa |
Succeeded by | Juan Manuel Abal Medina |
General Secretary of the Presidency | |
In office 16 December 2014 – 26 February 2015 |
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President | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
Preceded by | Oscar Parrilli |
Succeeded by | Vacant |
Minister of Justice and Human Rights | |
In office 10 December 2007 – 8 July 2009 |
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President | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
Preceded by | Alberto Iribarne |
Succeeded by | Julio Alak |
Minister of the Interior | |
In office 25 May 2003 – 10 December 2007 |
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President | Néstor Kirchner |
Preceded by | Jorge Matzkin |
Succeeded by | Florencio Randazzo |
Minister of Production | |
In office 2 October 2002 – 25 May 2003 |
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President | Eduardo Duhalde |
Preceded by | José Ignacio de Mendiguren |
Succeeded by | Débora Giorgi (Industry; 2008) |
Personal details | |
Born |
Quilmes, Argentina |
9 January 1957
Political party | Justicialist Party |
Other political affiliations |
Front for Victory (2003–present) |
Alma mater | National University of Lomas de Zamora |
Aníbal Domingo Fernández (born January 9, 1957) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician, lawyer, and certified public accountant who has been a close ally, loyal to both, the late President Néstor Kirchner and the former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. He has held several cabinet positions under three presidents, serving in these offices for a total of over nine years. He served as Minister of Production under Eduardo Duhalde, as Interior Minister under Néstor Kirchner, as Minister of Justice under Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and as the President's Cabinet Chief from 2009 to 2011.
Born in Quilmes, Buenos Aires Province, Fernández received his CPA on 6 March 1982 from the Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora and his law degree on 19 December 2001 from the same institution.
He entered public service, working for the municipalities of Quilmes Partido and Florencio Varela Partido from 1983 as an advisor to the Budget Committee of the Senate of the province of Buenos Aires. He worked from 1985 to 1991 in an administrative capacity for the Peronist caucus in the Senate of the Province of Buenos Aires. Between 1985 and 1987, he was secretary of the administrative bloc of the Peronist Movement of the Senate, and worked in the administrative secretariat between 1987 and 1991. He advised the City Council of Quilmes, between 1983 and 1989, and Florencio Varela, between 1983 and 1988.
In 1991, Fernández was elected Mayor of Quilmes, a position that was tainted by scandal and corruption charges.
He was elected to the Constitutional Convention of the province of Buenos Aires in 1994 and served as chairman of the Committee on the Electoral System of the Constitutional Convention. He wrote the Eighth Section of the Reformed Constitution of the Province of Buenos Aires.
In 1995 he became a provincial senator and chaired the Public Health committee. He won the award for best senator in 1996. In June 1997 he was appointed to assist the province's Minister of Government and Justice, Dr. José María Díaz Bancalari. In 1999, he was elected president of the party in Quilmes. In December 1999, Governor Carlos Ruckauf named him Secretary of Labour, promoting him to be the province's first Minister of Labour in 2001.