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7 unusual facts about Mauricio Macri


2011 in Argentina

Mauricio Macri runs for reelection as mayor of Buenos Aires, getting nearly 47% of the vote.

Mauricio Macri declines his precandidature to run for the presidency of Argentina, running instead for reelection as mayor of Buenos Aires.

Buenos Aires bid for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Argentine IOC Member and Argentine Olympic Committee head Gerardo Werthein as well as Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri wrote letters to IOC President Jacques Rogge in support of the bid.

Delia Pinchetti de Sierra Morales

Subsequently she announced her departure from the party and was confirmed as the lead candidate for National Deputy for the Unión Pro Federal alliance formed by Mauricio Macri's PRO and dissident Peronists.

Jorge Alberto Palacios

Head of the Argentine Federal Police Anti-Terrorism Unit, in 2009 he was appointed by Mayor Mauricio Macri to lead the Metropolitan Police, the new police force of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.

La Bombonera

It was renamed on December 27, 2000, by team President Mauricio Macri in honor of Alberto Armando, team president during its resurgence during the 1960s as well as a former business partner of his father Francisco Macri.

Macri

Mauricio Macri (born 1959), Head of Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentine businessman and politician


Juan Carlos Blumberg

He has been courted by Mauricio Macri of the centre-right Commitment to Change party, possibly as a candidate to be governor of Buenos Aires Province for the PRO alliance.

Parque de la Ciudad

The park's deteriorating condition led to its closure by Mayor Aníbal Ibarra in October 2003, and though it was reopened three years later, ongoing safety concerns led to its renewed closure in March 2008 by Mayor Mauricio Macri.


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