Carlos Zannini
| Carlos Zannini | |
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| Legal and Technical Secretary for President of Argentina | |
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In office 25 May 2003 – 10 December 2015 |
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| President |
Néstor Kirchner (2003-07) Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (since 2007) |
| Preceded by | Antonio Arcuri |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
27 August 1954 Villa Nueva, Córdoba Province, Argentina |
| Nationality | Argentine |
| Spouse(s) | Patricia Alsúa |
| Alma mater | National University of Córdoba |
Alberto Carlos Zannini (born 27 August 1954 in Villa Nueva, Córdoba, Argentina) is an Argentine lawyer and politician. He has been the Legal and Technical Secretary for President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner since 2003.
Zannini has been described as “one of Kirchner’s most trusted men” and as “the power behind the President.” It has been said that his key attribute is his ability “to interpret the decisions of Cristina Kirchner” and to take “the political decisions of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner throughout the ‘winning decade’ and translated them into decrees, resolutions, and bills.”
He is nicknamed “El Chino” (The Chinese) because of “his admiration during his youth for the policies of Mao Tse-Tung in the People's Republic of China.”
Zannini was born in the small town of Villa Nueva, in eastern Córdoba Province. His father was a bricklayer and his mother was a housewife. In his childhood he was a serious tennis player.
He began to be active in politics in the 1970s, with the rise to power of Campora and the third presidency of Juan Perón. He considered himself a Maoist and belonged to a Maoist group called the Communist Vanguard.
After the 1976 coup because of his membership in the Communist Vanguard, Zannini was arrested and held in the prison of La Plata for four years. Eventually he was released and completed law school. In 1982, Zannini organized “the Peronist boys” in El Carmen.
He was invited by a friend, Roberto Arizmendi, to move to Río Gallegos. There he met Néstor Kirchner in 1984, who was then an emerging politician and lawyer, and Cristina Fernández.
Zannini held various positions within the civil service, mostly in the province of Santa Cruz, and invariably at the right hand of Kirchner.
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