Florencio Randazzo
| Florencio Randazzo | |
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Argentine Minister of the Interior and Transport Florencio Randazzo
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| Minister of the Interior and Transport of Argentina | |
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In office 10 December 2007 – 10 December 2015 |
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| President | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| Vice President |
Julio Cobos (2007 - 2011) Amado Boudou (2011 - 2015) |
| Preceded by | Aníbal Fernández |
| Succeeded by |
Rogelio Frigerio (as Minister of Interior Affairs) Guillermo Dietrich (as Minister of Transport) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1 March 1964 Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina |
| Nationality |
 Argentina
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| Political party | Front for Victory |
| Spouse(s) | Andrea Veronica Pantanali |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of Buenos Aires |
| Profession | Accountancy |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Florencio Randazzo (born 1 March 1964) in an Argentine Justicialist Party politician, and formerly the Minister of the Interior and Transport.
Aníbal Florencio Randazzo was born in Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires Province, in 1964, to Gladys Campagnon and Juan "Togo" Randazzo, whose father emigrated from Sicily to Argentina. The elder Randazzo was an active Peronist organizer in Chivilcoy and first involved his son, Florencio, in political activity in 1981, during an economic crisis precipitated by Argentina's dictatorship at the time. Enrolling at the University of Buenos Aires in 1983, he graduated with a degree in accountancy in 1989.
Randazzo was brought on in 1991 as the executive assistant for Fernando Galmarini, the Minister of Government to the new Governor of Buenos Aires, Eduardo Duhalde. He also accepted a pro bono position in the Provincial Organ Transplant Fund, a post he retained until 2003. Named the Minister of Government's Chief of Staff in 1992, he was elected Chivilcoy City Council President in 1993, a position he accepted ad honorem while retaining a post as Director of the Governor's Rural Development office. Elected to the Buenos Aires Provincial Legislature in 1995, he served in numerous social and economic policy committees and, from 1999, as majority leader before his 2002 appointment as Secretary of Government Modernization by the new Governor, Felipe Solá. Governor Solá named Randazzo Cabinet Chief in 2003, effectively making him his top adviser.
Opposed by many of the Greater Buenos Aires-area Mayors primarily because Solá broke with tradition by naming a Cabinet Chief from outside the metro area (home to two out of three residents in the Province of Buenos Aires), Randazzo largely limited himself to his role as the Governor's political adviser. The Legislature's rejection of Gustavo Lopetegui as President of the Bank of the Province of Buenos Aires (the nation's second-largest) in December 2005 led Randazzo to recommend the relatively young Martín Lousteau to the powerful post, a decision that reaped Solá benefits when Lousteau successfully negotiated a US$65 million debt the institution owed Spain's Banco Santander.
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