Aníbal Ibarra
| Aníbal Ibarra | |
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| 3rd Chief of Government of the City of Buenos Aires | |
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In office August 7, 2000 – March 7, 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Enrique Olivera |
| Succeeded by | Jorge Telerman |
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| Born |
March 1, 1958 Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires Province |
| Nationality |
 Argentine
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| Spouse(s) | Marcela Heiss |
| Alma mater | University of Buenos Aires |
| Profession | lawyer |
Aníbal Ibarra (born March 1, 1958) is an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Buenos Aires from 2000 to 2006.
Ibarra was born in Lomas de Zamora, a district located in the southern region of Greater Buenos Aires. His father was a Paraguayan member of the PLRA who left his country during the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner. He enrolled at the Instituto Libre de Segunda Enseñanza, a public college preparatory school, and earned a law degree at the University of Buenos Aires. He worked as a prosecutor in the Judiciary, 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 Carlos Menem to leaders of the 1976-83 dictatorship convicted in the 1985 Trial of the Juntas led to Ibarra's dismissal as prosecutor 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 1994 amendment of the Argentine Constitution. 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 Buenos Aires City Legislature upon its replacement of the Deliberative Council in 1997.
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