Sergio Massa
| Sergio Massa | |
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| Mayor of Tigre | |
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Assumed office 24 July 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Julio Zamora |
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In office 10 December 2007 – 23 July 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Ricardo Ubieto |
| Succeeded by | Julio Zamora |
| Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers of Argentina | |
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In office 23 July 2008 – 7 July 2009 |
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| President | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| Preceded by | Alberto Fernández |
| Succeeded by | Aníbal Fernández |
| Executive Director of ANSES | |
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In office 23 January 2002 – 10 December 2007 |
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| President |
Néstor Kirchner Eduardo Duhalde |
| Preceded by | Gustavo Macchi |
| Succeeded by | Claudio Moroni |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
28 April 1972 San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Political party |
UCD Peronism (Since 1995) (FPV to June 2013) (FR since June 2013) |
| Other political affiliations |
Union of the Democratic Centre (1989 - 1995) |
| Spouse(s) | Malena Galmarini |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of Belgrano |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Sergio Tomás Massa (born April 28, 1972) is an Argentine peronist politician who served as Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers from July 2008 to July 2009.
National Congressman for Buenos Aires Province | Frente Renovador (Renewal Front) leader;
Massa was born in western Buenos Aires suburb of San Martín, in 1972, and raised in neighboring San Andrés. Attending the School of St. Augustine through grade and secondary school, he enrolled at the University of Belgrano, a private university in the upscale Buenos Aires borough of the same name. Leaving school before completing his law degree studies, he married Malena Galmarini, whose father, Fernando Galmarini, was at the time Secretary of Sports for President Carlos Menem.
He became affiliated to the conservative UCeDé in 1989 as an aide to Alejandro Keck, councilman for the San Martín partido (which includes San Andrés). Massa joined the ruling Justicialist Party in 1995, when the UCeDé endorsed the re-election of President Menem after the latter had sidestepped much of his populist Justicialist Party's platform in favor of a more conservative one. Shortly after a crisis led to President Fernando de la Rúa's December 2001 resignation, the Congress appointed Senator Eduardo Duhalde, a more traditional Peronist than Menem had been. Acquainted with Massa through Restaurant Workers' Union leader Luis Barrionuevo, Duhalde appointed Massa Director of the ANSeS (Argentina's Social Security administration).
The pragmatic Massa ran on President Néstor Kirchner's center-left Front for Victory ticket during the 2005 legislative elections. Securing a seat in the Chamber of Deputies (lower house of Congress), he forfeited it at the behest of the President, who requested that he stay on as Director of ANSeS. Remaining at the post two more years, he oversaw the voluntary conversion of several million private pension accounts to the ANSeS' aegis when this choice was made available in December 2006.
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