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Alberto Ángel Fernández (born April 2, 1959) is an Argentine

Argentina

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politician. He was the Chief of Cabinet

Cabinet (government)

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of Argentina

Argentina

during Néstor Kirchner

Néstor Kirchner

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presidency, and part of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

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's. He resigned on July 23, 2008.

Fernández was born in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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, where he would later attend Law School at the University of Buenos Aires

University of Buenos Aires

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. He graduated at the age of 24, and later became a professor of Criminal Law there. In the field of politics, he worked in non-elective posts in the Deliberative Council of Buenos Aires City, in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies

Argentine Chamber of Deputies

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and in the national Ministry of Economy, during the 1990s. He was also involved in insurance and health services companies in the private field and in state banks and other companies. During this time he became politically close to former governor of the province of Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires Province

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, Eduardo Duhalde

Eduardo Duhalde

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.

On June 7, 2000, Fernández was elected Deputy for the City of Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

, for the minor party Acción por la República led by Domingo Cavallo

Domingo Cavallo

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, then Minister of Economy of the de la Rúa

Fernando de la Rúa

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administration. He gave up his seat when he was appointed Chief of Cabinet by President

President of Argentina

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Néstor Kirchner

upon taking office on May 25, 2003. He retained the same position under new President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

upon her election in 2007 and resigned to his office on July 23, 2008. In November 2009, at a convention held at the Paseo La Plaza, Alberto Fernandez said is ready to challenge Duhalde and Kirchner at the time the Partido Justicialista will nominate its Presidential candidate for the following general election. In Argentina, the nomination of candidates is usually the responsibility of the political party organizations themselves and does not involve the general public.
At conference held at the Hotel Castelar, Alberto Fernandez has announced that Santiago Montoya -a former Director of the Agency of Tax Collection for the Province of Buenos Aires, ARBA- has joined forces.

Alberto Angel Fernández (born April 2, 1959 in Buenos Aires,
Argentina) is a lawyer and politician that held the Government Chief
of Cabinet post of this country from 2003 to 2008, under the
presidencies of Nestor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
This is the longest that an officer has held that post since it was
created. He is a member of the Justicialist Party (Spanish: Partido
Justicialista- PJ), a Peronist political party in Argentina, and the
largest component of the Peronist movement.

He attended Law School at the University of Buenos Aires, where he is
a Professor of Criminal Law. He was President of the Latin American
Insurance Chief Officers association from 1989 to 1992, under Carlos
Saul Menem’s presidency, and is a co-founder of the Insurance Chief
Officers International Association. Previous to this, he was an
adviser for the Congress and Deputy Director of Legal Affairs of the
Economy Department. In 1999 he became Director of the Transparency in
Public and Private Organizations Program in the University of Buenos
Aires. In 2000 he was elected legislator for the City of Buenos
Aires. He was also involved in Insurance and Health Care in the
private field, and has been awarded the Millennium award for Businessman
of the century, amongst others.

Upon being elected president, Néstor Kirchner appointed Alberto A.
Fernández to be his Chief of Cabinet in May 35, 2003. After a couple
of years of political chaos and an economic crisis that ended in the
country’s default and social unrest, Nestor Kirchner’s government is
credited with leading Argentina out of it’s institutional turmoil.
Cristina Fernadez de Kirchner, who was elected President of Argentina
on October 2007, kept Alberto Fernández as Chief of Cabinet. He
resigned his post on July 23, 2008, amidst a crisis related to a new
system of variable taxes on agricultural exports, citing he wanted to
"give oxigen to the government of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner".

He is currently working on his own project within the Justicialist
Party, and has told the media that he can see himself as President of
Argentina in 2011, given his experience in various fields of the
country’s administration.

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