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Horacio Rodríguez Larreta
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Larreta in 2012
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| Chief of Government of Buenos Aires | |
| In office 10 December 2015 – 10 December 2023 |
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| Deputy | Diego Santilli |
| Preceded by | Mauricio Macri |
| Succeeded by | Jorge Macri |
| Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers of Buenos Aires | |
| In office 10 December 2007 – 10 December 2015 |
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| Mayor | Mauricio Macri |
| Preceded by | Raúl Fernández |
| Succeeded by | Felipe Miguel |
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| Born | 29 October 1965 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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Juntos por el Cambio (since 2015) |
| Spouse |
Bárbara Diez
(m. 2001; separated 2020) |
| Children | 2 |
| Residence | Buenos Aires |
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Horacio Rodríguez Larreta (Spanish pronunciation: [oˈɾasjo roˈðɾiɣes la'reta]; born 29 October 1965) is an Argentine economist, politician and the current Chief of Government of the City of Buenos Aires. Larreta was re-elected in 2019 with almost 56% of the votes, becoming the first candidate to win a mayoral election in the first round since the adoption of Buenos Aires's autonomous constitution. He won in every comuna, except Comuna 4 and Comuna 8.
Since 2019, he assumed the leadership of the Argentine opposition, Juntos por el Cambio. In February 2023, he announced his candidacy for the presidency in the 2023 general election. He competed against fellow PRO member Patricia Bullrich for the coalition's nomination but lost in the August 2023 primaries with 11% of the vote against Bullrich's 17%.
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Early life and education
Larreta was born in Buenos Aires on 29 October 1965. His father, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta (1934–2004) was a prominent member of the Integration and Development Movement and chairman of Racing Club, while his great-uncle, the namesake Horacio Rodríguez Larreta (1871–1935) was Attorney General of Argentina during the presidency of Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear.
He studied high school at the Escuela Argentina Modelo, and graduated with a degree in economics at the University of Buenos Aires in 1988 and obtained a Master in Business Administration in Harvard Business School. He returned to Argentina in 1993.
Early political career
He was appointed director of the National Social Security Administration in 1995, during the presidency of Carlos Menem. In 1998 he moved to the Ministry of Social Development. He led the Comprehensive Medical Attention Program in 2000, during the presidency of Fernando de la Rúa, and improved the financial structure of the organization.
Republican Proposal
He helped Mauricio Macri to create the political party Commitment to Change, which would eventually become the Republican Proposal (PRO). Macri became Mayor of Buenos Aires and Larreta served as Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers for eight years.
Larreta and Gabriela Michetti ran against each other in the primary elections of PRO Union, a center-right coalition in 2015, with Larreta ultimately winning the party's support for mayorship of Buenos Aires. On 5 July 2015, Larreta won 45% of the vote, forcing a runoff with the leader of center-left Evolution's, Martín Lousteau, who secured 28% of the vote.
Rodríguez Larreta won the ballottage by three points over Lousteau and succeeded Mauricio Macri as Mayor of the City since 2015.
In these elections, PRO was stronger in wealthier northern Buenos Aires, while ECO was stronger in the southern, poorer neighborhoods of the city.
Chief of Government of Buenos Aires
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Mauricio Macri was elected President of Argentina in 2015, and Larreta was elected Mayor of Buenos Aires, both for the PRO party.
Security
Macri transferred a part of the Argentine Federal Police to Buenos Aires, as it had been requested by the city many years before. With the police under his control, Larreta went on to remove the manteros (streetwalk vendors) from the Caballito and Once neighborhoods.
In 2017, Larreta formed the Buenos Aires City Police, merging officers from the Federal and Metropolitan police forces.
Public work
During its management, the work of the Paseo del Bajo was started and inaugurated, which is the 7.1-kilometer road corridor that will connect the Illia and Buenos Aires-La Plata highways, the work in question began during January 2017 and the 27 May 2019 shortening the journey from 50 minutes to 10 minutes. It will generate 100,000 square meters of public and green space and improve the circulation of 134,000 daily passengers.
He also inaugurated the work of the Mitre Viaduct, which will raise the Mitre line of the metropolitan train over its current course, enabling new level crossings and eliminating traditional barriers. It is 3.9 km inside the city. The objective of this work is to eliminate the level crossings of the streets Monroe, Blanco Encalada, Mendoza, Juramento, Olazábal, Sucre, La Pampa and Olleros. In addition, 4 safe crossings will be opened on streets that were closed to traffic: Roosevelt, Echeverría and Virrey del Pino, for vehicular traffic, and José Hernández, an exclusive pedestrian crossing.
In 2018, Larreta's government inaugurated a new station on Line H serving the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Law in the Recoleta neighborhood. In mid-2019, the three new stations of the extension of Line E (Correo Central, Catalinas and Retiro), were inaugurated. After 45 years of sustained Subway growth, new subway stations construction was halted in 2018 by his administration
During its first term, 3 viaducts were built, 9 km of underground work of the Vega Stream, 7 stations of subway, 10,000 security cameras, 62.5 km of metrobus extension, 54 new schools, 10,000 new homes, 7 monitoring centers, 46 health centers, the Olympic District was built, the San Martin Theater was reopened, the Corrientes Street, the Youth Olympic Games were held in 2018, neighborhoods were integrated and urbanized and the City became 100% led
Also, he broke a world record selling 267 hectares of Public Lands without consulting their citizens, same as selling 126 "Plazas de Mayo" (May Park) .
Reelection
Larreta was re-elected in 2019 with almost 56% of the votes, becoming the first candidate to win a mayoral election in the first round since the adoption of Buenos Aires's autonomous constitution. He won in every comuna, except Comuna 4 and Comuna 8.
Cabinet
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Rodríguez Larreta announced his cabinet on 3 December, a week before taking office. It is composed of:
- Felipe Miguel, chief of cabinet of ministers
- Fernando Straface, general secretary
- Soledad Acuña, minister of education
- Ana María Bou Pérez, minister of health
- Guadalupe Tagliaferri, minister of urban development
- Leticia Montiel, legal and technical secretary
- Andrés Freire, minister of modernization
- Darío Lopérfido, minister of culture
- Martín Ocampo, minister of justice
- Eduardo Macchiavelli, minister of public space
- Franco Moccia, minister of transport
- Martín Mura, minister of finances
- Bruno Screnci, minister of government
- Marcelo Nachón, secretary of media
Personal life
Rodríguez Larreta is married to Bárbara Diez, a wedding planner, since 2001. He and Diez have two daughters, Paloma (born 2003) and Serena (born 2016), while Diez has an older daughter, Manuela, from an earlier marriage. Rodríguez Larreta and Diez have been separated since 2020. In October 2022, he made public his relationship with Milagros Maylin, a public officer in the Buenos Aires City Government and a friend of his daughter's, 20 years his junior.
Rodríguez Larreta is a Roman Catholic. .....
Rodríguez Larreta suffers from essential tremor (ET).
Electoral history
| Election | Office | List | Votes | Result | Ref. | |||
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| 2015 1-R | Chief of Government of Buenos Aires | Republican Proposal | 832,619 | 45.56% | 1st | → Round 2 | ||
| 2015 2-R | Republican Proposal | 861,380 | 51.64% | 1st | Elected | |||
| 2019 | Juntos por el Cambio | 1,095,013 | 55.90% | 1st | Elected | |||
| 2023 PASO | President of Argentina | Juntos por el Cambio | 2,675,563 | 11.30% | 4th | Not elected | ||
Publications
- 1996: Tecnología y competitividad en el Mercosur
- 1997: Hacia un nuevo sector público
- 1998: Domando al elefante blanco
- 1999: El desafío de la igualdad
- 2004: La reconstrucción del Estado
- 2005: Cómo superar el default social
- 2006: El país que queremos
See also
In Spanish: Horacio Rodríguez Larreta para niños
