María Eugenia Vidal
| María Eugenia Vidal | |
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| Governor of Buenos Aires | |
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Assumed office December 10, 2015 |
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| Vice Governor | Daniel Salvador |
| Preceded by | Daniel Scioli |
| Deputy Mayor of the City of Buenos Aires |
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In office December 10, 2011 – December 10, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Gabriela Michetti |
| Succeeded by | Diego Santilli |
| Minister of Social Development of the City of Buenos Aires |
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In office May 28, 2008 – December 10, 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Esteban Bullrich |
| Succeeded by | Carolina Stanley |
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September 8, 1973 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Political party | Republican Proposal |
| Spouse(s) | Ramiro Tagliaferro (1998-2016) |
| Alma mater | Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina |
María Eugenia Vidal (born September 8, 1973) is an Argentine politician. Affiliated with the Republican Proposal party, she was appointed Minister of Social Development of the City of Buenos Aires, and in 2011 was elected Deputy Mayor. She is current Governor of the province of Buenos Aires, being the first woman and the first non-Peronist since 1987 to be voted into this office.
Vidal was born in Buenos Aires. She was raised in the Flores ward and enrolled in the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, earning a degree in Political Science. She met Ramiro Tagliaferro, a classmate at the university, and they married in 1998; the couple has a son and two daughters.
She began her career in Grupo Sophia, a think tank founded by Horacio Rodríguez Larreta. She was named director of the group's social policy desk in 2000, as well as of Fundación Creer y Crecer, a think tank organized by Commitment to Change, a conservative political party led by mayoral candidate Mauricio Macri. She is also a member of Washington D.C. based think tank, The Inter-American Dialogue. Vidal was elected to the Buenos Aires City Legislature in 2003, and was appointed Chair of the Committee on Women and Youth. She served in the Human Resources Department at PAMI (the national health insurance service for the elderly and disabled), and as adviser to ANSES (the social security administration), as well as the nation's Ministries of Social Development and Foreign Relations.
Vidal was fielded in the Republican Proposal (PRO) party list as a candidate for a seat in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for Buenos Aires Province in 2005, though unsuccessfully; she was later elected to the Buenos Aires City Legislature. The election of PRO leader Mauricio Macri as Mayor of Buenos Aires in 2007 led to Vidal's nomination as the city's Minister of Social Development. She requested maternity leave from the post ahead of her scheduled December 10 swearing-in for the birth of her third child, and took office on May 27, 2008.
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