Francesco Macri
| Francesco Franco Macri | |
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| Born |
April 15, 1930 Rome, Italy |
| Residence | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Occupation | Contractor, developer, and industrialist |
| Years active | Since 1950 |
| Spouse(s) | Alicia Blanco Villegas (1958 – 1980) Cristina Cressier (1982 – 1986) |
| Website | www.francomacri.com.ar |
Francesco "Franco" Macri (born April 15, 1930) is a prominent Italian Argentine businessman and father of Mauricio Macri, President of Argentina.
Franco Macri was born in Rome, to Giorgio Macri and Lea Garbini. His mother belonged to a prosperous local family, proprietors of an intercity bus service and supporters of Fascist Dictator Benito Mussolini. His father, in turn, was born to a family of fallen nobility from the Calabria Region of Italy. Opponents of il Duce, their kinship to the powerful Pellicano clan allowed them to retain a small postal service carrier in the area around San Giorgio Morgeto. The eight-year-old Franco and his two younger siblings were sent to a military school in 1938, following their parents' divorce two years earlier, a common fate for the children of divorced couples under Italian Fascism; they were reunited with their father in Genoa five years later.
The birth of the Italian Republic prompted Giorgio Macri to enter politics, by which he co-founded a nationalist party, L'Uomo Qualunque ("The Common Man"), ahead of the general elections in June 1946; following the party's poor showing, however, he departed for Buenos Aires, settling in the western suburb of San Justo. He later obtained housing in the Eva Perón Foundation's Ciudad Evita community, and was joined by his three children in January 1949. Franco Macri found work in as a construction laborer; he was promoted quickly and held an administrative post within a year, later earning his secondary school diploma at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires and, in 1950, establishing a construction firm, Urbana.
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