Verónica Magario

Verónica María Magario (born 26 May 1969) is an Argentine politician, currently serving as Vice Governor of Buenos Aires Province, alongside Governor Axel Kicillof, since 10 December 2019. From 2015 to 2019, Magario was intendente (mayor) of La Matanza, the most populous partido in the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area.

Verónica Magario
Vice Governor of Buenos Aires
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 December 2019
Governor	Axel Kicillof
Preceded by	Daniel Salvador
Mayor of La Matanza
In office 12 December 2015 – 11 December 2019
Preceded by	Fernando Espinoza
Succeeded by	Fernando Espinoza
National Deputy
In office 10 December 2013 – 10 December 2015
Constituency	Buenos Aires
Personal details
Born	Verónica María Magario 26 May 1969 Santa Fe, Santa Fe Province, Argentina
Political party	Justicialist Party
Other political affiliations	Front for Victory (2005–2017) Citizen's Unity (2017–2019) Frente de Todos (2019–present)
Alma mater	Otto Krause Technical School
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She was also a National Deputy from 2013 to 2015, and member of the La Matanza city council from 2011 to 2013.

Early life and education

Verónica María Magario was born on 26 May 1969 in Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, in Santa Fe Province. Her parents were María Eugenia Calderón, a school teacher, and Raúl Magario, a member of Montoneros and the organization's financial administrator.[1][2] She spent most of her childhood in San Isidro and Ramos Mejía, but after the 1976 coup d'état, her family was forced into exile in Mexico, where she lived for eight years.[3]

The family returned to Argentina in 1984, after the fall of the last military dictatorship, and Raúl Magario was imprisoned; he was released in 1989 following a pardon issued by president Carlos Menem.[4] Magario attended the Otto Krause Technical School and graduated with a technical degree on chemistry, which she used to work as a high school teacher.[5]

She began studying mathematics at the University of Buenos Aires, hoping to eventually attain a licenciatura and attend the Balseiro Institute to become a nuclear physicist, but she had to drop out as her studies interfered with her burgeoning political career.[1]

Political career

Magario started working at the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 1988, where she met national deputy Alberto Balestrini and became an advisor in his legislative office. Concurrently, she became a union delegate at the Asociación del Personal Legislativo (legislative workers' union).[1]

She accompained Balestrini upon his election as intendente of La Matanza in 1999, holding a number of municipal posts. She remained in the municipal government when Balestrini was succeeded by Fernando Espinoza in 2005, becoming his deputy chief of staff in 2006.[6]

In 2011 she was elected to the La Matanza city council, which she went on to preside.[3] Magario was the third candidate in the Front for Victory list to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies at the 2013 legislative election; she was elected and sworn in on 10 December 2013.[7]

Mayor of La Matanza

At the 2015 municipal election, running as the Front for Victory's mayoral candidate, Magario received 47.54% of the vote, defeating the Cambiemos candidate by over 20 points.[8] She succeeded Fernando Espinoza on 12 December 2015 to become La Matanza's first woman mayor.[9] As mayor, she rejected the proposal to split the partido introduced by GEN provincial deputy Marcelo Díaz.[10]

She was the first Citizen's Unity candidate for the La Matanza city council at the 2017 legislative election; the candidacy was unsuccessfully denounced as "testimonial" before the provincial Electoral Tribunal.[11]

Vice governor of Buenos Aires

Ahead of the 2019 general election, Magario was chosen as Axel Kicillof's running mate in the Frente de Todos list for the governorship of Buenos Aires.[12] The Kicillof–Magario ticket won 52.15% of the vote, against incumbent governor María Eugenia Vidal's 38.49%.[13] She took office alongside Kicillof on 11 December 2019.[14]

References

1. Sánchez, Hernán (11 August 2020). "Intima y personal: la vida, el presente y el pensamiento de Verónica Magario". La Tecla (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 December 2020.
2. "Quién es Verónica Magario, la intendenta de La Matanza que ploteó los patrulleros con su nombre". La Nación (in Spanish). 17 April 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
3. Verón, Mariana (29 July 2013). "Verónica Magario: "Se juegan los próximos años de gobernabilidad"". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 December 2020.
4. Sehinkman, Diego (29 August 2015). "Verónica Magario: "Yo sugerí que Aníbal se baje, pero hoy es nuestro candidato"". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 December 2020.
5. "Verónica María Magario". lanoticia1.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 December 2020.
6. ""La descentralización, no para dividir sino para regionalizar"". La Barra (in Spanish). 21 October 2007. Archived from the original on 19 May 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
7. Jorquera, Miguel (15 July 2013). ""Este es un lugar para La Matanza"". Página/12 (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 December 2020.
8. "Cambiemos tiñó de amarillo la Provincia y expulsó a los barones". Perfil (in Spanish). 26 October 2015. Archived from the original on 27 October 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
9. "La primera intendenta". Diario Popular (in Spanish). 11 December 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
10. "Verónica Magario volvió a rechazar la división de La Matanza". Diario Popular (in Spanish). 26 September 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
11. "Magario encabezará lista de concejales de La Matanza para "enviar un mensaje al Gobierno"". Ámbito (in Spanish). 25 June 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
12. "Una militante de cuna peronista". Página/12 (in Spanish). 29 May 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
13. "Axel Kicillof logró un contundente triunfo frente a María Eugenia Vidal y se convirtió en gobernador de Buenos Aires". Infobae (in Spanish). 27 October 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
14. "Axel Kicillof asumió como gobernador y derogará el último tarifazo de Vidal". Página/12 (in Spanish). 11 December 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2020.

External links

• Official website (in Spanish)
• magariovero on Twitter