Gabriela Michetti | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Michetti in 2016 | |
| 36thVice President of Argentina | |
| In office 10 December 2015 – 10 December 2019 | |
| President | Mauricio Macri |
| Preceded by | Amado Boudou |
| Succeeded by | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| National Senator | |
| In office 10 December 2013 – 10 December 2015 | |
| Constituency | City of Buenos Aires |
| National Deputy | |
| In office 10 December 2009 – 9 December 2013 | |
| Constituency | City of Buenos Aires |
| Deputy Chief of Government of Buenos Aires | |
| In office 10 December 2007 – 20 April 2009 | |
| Chief of Government | Mauricio Macri |
| Preceded by | Jorge Telerman |
| Succeeded by | María Eugenia Vidal |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Marta Gabriela Michetti Illia (1965-05-28)28 May 1965 (age 60) |
| Political party | Republican Proposal |
| Other political affiliations | Juntos por el Cambio(2015–present) |
| Domestic partner | Eduardo Cura (1990–present) |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | Universidad del Salvador |
| Profession | International relations lawyer |
| Signature |  |
Marta Gabriela Michetti Illia (Spanish pronunciation:[ɡaˈβɾjelamiˈtʃeti]ⓘ; born 28 May 1965) is anArgentine politician and wasVice President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019 duringMauricio Macri's administration.[1] She is the second woman to serve as vice president, 40 years afterIsabel Perón left that office. However, her term in office was followed by two women vice presidents,Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and then the incumbentVictoria Villarruel.
Michetti is a member ofRepublican Proposal andCambiemos. She wasDeputy Chief of Government in Buenos Aires from 2007 to 2009. She wasNational Deputy from 2009 to 2013 and served asNational Senator for theCity of Buenos Aires since 2013 to 2015.
Ideologically, she is consideredconservative; religiously, she isCatholic.[2]
She is a great-grandniece of formerArgentine presidentArturo Umberto Illia.[3][4]
Marta Gabriela Michetti Illia[5] was born in 1965 in theBuenos Aires Province town ofLaprida into a family ofItalian background. She earned a degree in International Relations at theUniversidad del Salvador,Buenos Aires, in 1988.[6] She completed a master's degree in Business Management and Integration in the UCES between 1993 and 1994 plus a specialization course on dispute settlement in the WTO, inGeneva,Switzerland in 2000; and a career specialization in University Management at theUniversity of Ottawa,Canada in 2001.[7]
Michetti entered public service in 1989 in the Province of Buenos Aires, and the following year joined the executive staff as a technical adviser at theArgentine Ministry of Economy. Although employed as a professional rather than as a politician, Michetti was political, working through her church on social projects and becoming close toCarlos Auyero of theChristian Democratic Party andFrePaSo.[8]
Michetti joined the Commitment to Change party led by Mauricio Macri in2003. The party became part of the PRO movement, and she was elected that year to theBuenos Aires City Legislature, where she led the Commitment to Change caucus.[6] Michetti gained recognition in 2006 while leading the inquiry committee looking into alleged negligence after afire at the República Cromagnon nightclub led to the deaths of 194 people. The scandal led to the resignation ofAníbal Ibarra, then mayor of Buenos Aires.
Michetti was nominated as running mate for Mauricio Macri in2007,[8] and the ticket resulted elected to office of Mayor and Vice Mayor of the City of Buenos Aires with 61% of the vote, defeatingDaniel Filmus andCarlos Heller of theFront for Victory.[9] Michetti thus became the first woman elected Deputy Mayor of Buenos Aires. She directed two planning committees, Programa Puertas del Bicentenario[10] and theConsejo de Planeamiento Estratégico, and drew from her personal tragedy to lead the newly created Commission for the Inclusion and Full Participation of Persons with Disabilities (COPIDIS).[11]
Ahead of the2009 elections forCongress, Michetti's name was frequently mentioned as a likely candidate forNational Deputy, despite serving less than two years in municipal government. By April, her candidature appeared less likely given the manoeuvres of all the main parties.[12] Much had also been made of her friendship with the leader of the rivalCivic Coalition,Elisa Carrió. However, on 20 April Michetti resigned as Deputy Head of Government and confirmed that she would lead the PRO list for Buenos Aires for national deputies.[13]
She rejected to run for vice president under Macri in the2015 national elections, and tried to run for mayor of Buenos Aires instead.Horacio Rodríguez Larreta defeated her during the primary elections, and would run for the Republican Proposal instead. Finally, she ran for vice president under Macri in 2015.
Michetti also collaborates with many NGOs to make possible for them to achieve their goals. In 2008 and 2009, for example she participated in theSouth American Business Forum as Speaker.
On 22 November 2015, afterCambiemos won the firstballotage in Argentina's history, Michetti becameVice President-elect of Argentina. She took office on 10 December 2015.[1][14][15]
Michetti took office on 10 December 2015, along with President-electMauricio Macri, taking an oath before the President. Then the President, delivered a speech of 27 minutes in which he pledged his "support for an independent judiciary, to fight corruption and drug trafficking, the internal union of Argentina, universal social protection, create a twenty-first-century style of education and that everyone can have a roof, water and sewer". He also greeted those who were his competitors during the presidential elections.[16]
Later she went to theCasa Rosada, where the received the presidential attributes in the White Hall at the hands of the Temporary President of the Senate,Federico Pinedo, President of the Chamber of Deputies Emilio Monzó and President of the Supreme CourtRicardo Lorenzetti. Minutes later she and the President went to the historic balcony where thousands of people waited in thePlaza de Mayo.[17]
After being anointed Vice President, Michetti gave a reception at theSan Martín Palace of Argentina Foreign Ministry to all the heads of state present:Michelle Bachelet fromChile,Horacio Cartes fromParaguay,Juan Manuel Santos fromColombia,Rafael Correa fromEcuador,Evo Morales fromBolivia,Dilma Rousseff fromBrazil, and representatives of other countries attending the inauguration.[18]
As vice president of the nation, she banned the exchange of tickets in the Senate for money. From this measure, legislators can receive a maximum of $30,000 in cash for "mobility." Passages that are not used within 30 days of the month cannot be accumulated.
A car accident in 1994 seriously injured Michetti and left her in a wheelchair.[8] Michetti has one son and had a long relationship with the journalist Eduardo Cura.[8]
Michetti is a staunch Roman Catholic and an opponent of abortion legalization[19][20][21] and same-sex marriages in her country.[22]
| Election | Office | List | Votes | Result | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | % | P. | ||||||
| 2007 1-R | Vice Chief of Government of Buenos Aires | PRO Alliance | 798,292 | 45.76% | 1st | → Round 2 | [23] | |
| 2007 2-R | PRO Alliance | 1,007,729 | 60.94% | 1st | Elected | |||
| 2015 PASO | Chief of Government of Buenos Aires | We've Got a Team | 352,969 | 19.29% | 2nd | Not elected[a] | [24] | |
| 2015 1-R | President of Argentina | Cambiemos | 8,601,131 | 34.15% | 2nd | → Round 2 | [25] | |
| 2015 2-R | Cambiemos | 12,988,349 | 51.34% | 1st | Elected | |||
| Election | Office | List | # | District | Votes | Result | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | % | P. | ||||||||
| 2003 | City Legislator | Commitment to Change | 1 | City of Buenos Aires | 179,730 | 10.35% | 4th[a] | Elected | [26][27] | |
| 2009 | National Deputy | Republican Proposal Alliance | 1 | City of Buenos Aires | 567,695 | 31.19% | 1st[a] | Elected | [28] | |
| 2013 | National Senator | PRO Union | 1 | City of Buenos Aires | 722,831 | 39.26% | 1st[a] | Elected | [29] | |
| Ancestors of Gabriela Michetti[30] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Media related toGabriela Michetti at Wikimedia Commons| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by | Vice President of Argentina 2015–19 | Succeeded by |
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
.jpg)
