Aníbal Fernández | |
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| Minister of Security | |
| In office 20 September 2021 – 10 December 2023 | |
| President | Alberto Fernández |
| Preceded by | Sabina Frederic |
| Succeeded by | Patricia Bullrich |
| Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers | |
| In office 26 February 2015 – 10 December 2015 | |
| President | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| Preceded by | Jorge Capitanich |
| Succeeded by | Marcos Peña |
| In office 8 July 2009 – 10 December 2011 | |
| President | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| Preceded by | Sergio Massa |
| Succeeded by | Juan Manuel Abal Medina |
| General Secretary of the Presidency | |
| In office 16 December 2014 – 26 February 2015 | |
| President | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| Preceded by | Oscar Parrilli |
| Succeeded by | Eduardo de Pedro |
| In office 2 January 2002 – 3 October 2002 | |
| President | Eduardo Duhalde |
| Preceded by | Luis Lusquiños |
| Succeeded by | José Pampuro |
| National Senator | |
| In office 10 December 2011 – 16 December 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Eric Calcagno |
| Succeeded by | Juan Manuel Abal Medina Jr. |
| Constituency | Buenos Aires |
| Minister of Justice, Security and Human Rights | |
| In office 10 December 2007 – 8 July 2009 | |
| President | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| Preceded by | Alberto Iribarne |
| Succeeded by | Julio Alak |
| Minister of the Interior | |
| In office 25 May 2003 – 10 December 2007 | |
| President | Néstor Kirchner |
| Preceded by | Jorge Matzkin |
| Succeeded by | Florencio Randazzo |
| Minister of Production | |
| In office 3 October 2002 – 25 May 2003 | |
| President | Eduardo Duhalde |
| Preceded by | José Ignacio de Mendiguren |
| Succeeded by | Débora Giorgi |
| Mayor of Quilmes | |
| In office 1991–1995 | |
| Preceded by | Eduardo Camaño |
| Succeeded by | Federico Scabarino |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1957-01-09)9 January 1957 (age 68) |
| Political party | Justicialist Party |
| Other political affiliations | Front for Victory(2003–2015) |
| Alma mater | National University of Lomas de Zamora |
| Profession | Lawyer |
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Aníbal Domingo Fernández (born January 9, 1957) is anArgentineJusticialist Party politician, lawyer, and certified public accountant. Throughout his career, he has remained a close ally to the formerPresidentsNéstor Kirchner andCristina Fernández de Kirchner. Between 2021 and 2023, he served as Argentina'sMinister of Security in the cabinet of PresidentAlberto Fernández.
He has held several cabinet positions under three presidents, serving in these offices for a total of over nine years. He served as Minister of Production underEduardo Duhalde, as Interior Minister underNéstor Kirchner, asMinister of Justice underCristina Fernández de Kirchner, and as the President's Cabinet Chief from 2009 to 2011. Most recently, he served as interventor of the state-owned mining company Yacimiento Carbonífero Río Turbio.[1] He is also the President of the Confederación Argentina de Hockey de Césped y Pista, having been elected unanimously for a second term.[2]
Born inQuilmes,Buenos Aires Province, Fernández received his CPA on 6 March 1982 from theUniversidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora and his law degree on 19 December 2001 from the same institution.
Peronist from an early age, he entered public service, working for the City ofQuilmes and City ofFlorencio Varela from 1983 as an advisor to the Budget Committee of the Senate of the province ofBuenos Aires. He worked from 1985 to 1991 in an administrative capacity for thePeronist caucus in the Senate of the Province of Buenos Aires. Between 1985 and 1987, he was administrative secretary of the Peronist Movement Caucus of the Senate, and worked in the administrative secretariat between 1987 and 1991. He advised the City Council of Quilmes, between 1983 and 1989, and Florencio Varela, between 1983 and 1988.
In 1991, Fernández was elected Mayor of Quilmes.
He was elected to the Constitutional Convention of the province of Buenos Aires in 1994 and served as chairman of the Committee on the Electoral System of the Constitutional Convention. He wrote the Eighth Section of the Reformed Constitution of the Province of Buenos Aires.
In 1995 he became a provincial senator and chaired the Public Health committee. He won the award for best senator in 1996. In June 1997 he was appointed to assist the province's Minister of Government and Justice, Dr.José María Díaz Bancalari. In 1999, he was elected president of the party in Quilmes. In December 1999, GovernorCarlos Ruckauf named him Secretary of Labour, promoting him to be the province's first Minister of Labour in 2001.
In January 2002, then-President of ArgentinaEduardo Duhalde appointed Fernández asGeneral Secretary of the Presidency in the national cabinet, and named himMinister of Production in October 2002. In 2003 he was elected to the National Congress, but resigned when Kirchner appointed himInterior Minister later that year.
Following the infant malnutrition scandal in Tucumán in November 2002, Fernández famously stated that this was caused by "a sick society and a ruling class that are sons of bitches, all of them."[3]
He was believed to be planning to run for Governor of Buenos Aires Province in the 2007 elections, but his party (Front for Victory) choseDaniel Scioli instead. Newly elected President Cristina Kirchner appointed him to her cabinet as Minister of Justice, Security and Human Rights following her inauguration in December 2007.La Nación, in an editorial entitled “Justice: A Bad Start,” opined that the selection of Fernández as Minister of Justice “cannot enthuse those who hope for progress” in Argentinian justice.
Following the rulingFront for Victory's defeat in the June 28, 2009,mid-term elections, Fernández was tapped to replace Cabinet ChiefSergio Massa, who tendered his resignation to the President, effective July 7.[4] Fernández held this position from July 8, 2009, until December 10, 2011.[5][6]
In national elections on October 23, 2011, he was elected National Senator for the Province of Buenos Aires by 4,600,000 votes.
He left the Cabinet on December 10, 2011, on the same day began representing the province of Buenos Aires in the national senate.In January 2014, Fernández said that he might be interested in succeeding Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as president of Argentina. He praised the president, describing her as “absolutely attuned to the national situation.”[7] He run for governor of the Buenos Aires Province instead, defeatingJulián Domínguez in the primary elections. He lost the main elections toMaría Eugenia Vidal, ofRepublican Proposal, and announced that he may leave politics.[8]
In 2021, he was appointed asMinister of Security in replacement ofSabina Frederic, as part of a cabinet reshuffle following the government's poor showings in the2021 legislative primary elections.[9]
In 2006, Anibal Fernández, who was serving as the Interior Minister at the time, referred to apaper by the San Andrés University later on published by the newspaper La Nación[10] of growing insecurity in Argentina as a "sensation".[11]
In December 2008, after Fernández blamed acts of railroad vandalism on the Partido Obrero, he was sued by the Partido Obrero for "slander, libel, moral damage and impact on the party's image."[12]
Fernández called Buenos Aires Education SecretaryAbel Posse an “ass” and a “misogynist” in December 2009.[13]
Fernández called TV hostMirtha Legrand "uneducated, rude, ignorant” in January 2010, and maintained that she “says stupid things.”[14]
In January 2010, Fernández called economist Martín Redrado a “fool” and "freak” who “thinks he is the center of the world and fails to show respect for Argentinians.”[15]
Fernández attacked Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian authorMario Vargas Llosa and Spanish philosopherFernando Savater in April 2011 for criticizing the policies of the Kirchner government. “They say stupid things,” he charged, just prior to the two writers’ appearances at a book fair. Vargas Llosa, Fernández complained, “insults President Cristina Kirchner every time he gets a chance,” and Savater “comes to Argentina to speak ill of the ruling party in Argentina.”[16]
Fernández's notable activities and associations include the following:
In May 2011 theEditorial Planeta published his first book,Zonceras argentinas y otras yerbas (Argentine follies and other stuff). The book is an attack on “the follies that do so much damage to the country” and to the Kirchner government.[17]
The book's title is a reference to the 1968 book by Argentinian writer Arturo Jauretche,Manual de zonceras argentinas, a catalogue of foolish ideas about Argentina that are widely held by the Argentinian people, having been inculcated in them by primary school and reaffirmed by the new media.
The foreword was written by the President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. The book was officially launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair on May 5, 2011, in front of a packed auditorium of government officials and most of the members of the Cabinet. In his presentation of the book, Fernández praised the president said that many books he had read were “full of false accusations” against the Kirchners. He singled out Mario Vargas Llosa for special criticism.[17]
In January 2012, his bookZonceras Argentinas al Sol was published. He described it as a response to “organized absurdity,” by which, he explained, he meant the opposition to the Kirchners.[18] At the official book presentation, mayor Dario Díaz Pérez Fernández said that the book would be “an invaluable tool for all youth who daily join the militancy for the project led by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.”[19]
Fernández is divorced with one son and a daughter and is a passionate fan ofQuilmes Atlético football club. He is the president of theJauretche Institute, named for the local 20th-century pro-development activistArturo Jauretche.
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| Preceded by | Mayor of Quilmes 1991–1995 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | General Secretary of the Presidency 2002 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister of the Interior 2003–2007 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister of Justice 2007–2009 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers 2009–2011 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers 2015 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister of Security 2021–2023 | Succeeded by |
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