Daniel Scioli

Daniel Scioli
Name	Daniel Scioli
Birth date	1957-01-13
Birth place	Buenos Aires
Nationality	Argentina
Occupation	Politician, businessman, sportsman
Party	Justicialist Party
Spouse	* Adriana Malvido (div. 1993) * Karina Rabolini (m. 1997–2015)

Daniel Scioli (born 13 January 1957) is an Argentine politician, businessman and former sportsman who has held executive and legislative office at provincial and national levels. He served as Vice President of Argentina and previously as Governor of Buenos Aires Province and as a prominent figure within the Justicialist Party. His public life intersects with Argentine Peronism, national electoral politics, international trade diplomacy, and motorsports.

Early life and education

Born in Boulogne in the Argentine Republic, he is the son of Italian-Argentine parents with roots in Naples and Abruzzo. He attended local schools in the Greater Buenos Aires area and pursued studies at the Instituto Argentino de Estudios Empresariales. Early influences included figures from Peronism and exposure to sports car racing culture through family connections to entrepreneurship in Buenos Aires suburbs.

Business and sports career

He built a public profile as a powerboat racer and later as a business entrepreneur linked to small and medium enterprises in the Buenos Aires Province industrial belt. His motorsports career included competition in events associated with Argentine aquatic racing circuits and appearances at regional competitions that connected him to personalities from Argentine motorsport and international powerboat racing communities. Business activities involved ventures in trade, automobile-related services and local commercial networks in the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area, bringing him into contact with provincial economic actors and chambers such as regional branches of Unión Industrial Argentina.

Political career

He began his political ascent within organizations affiliated with Peronism and the Justicialist Party, holding local party posts before winning election as a national legislator. He served in the Chamber of Deputies of Argentina and later held executive posts at federal agencies, including leadership roles in state-sponsored tourism and trade promotion bodies that engaged with ministries such as the Ministry of Economy (Argentina) and bilateral partners like the Mercosur bloc. He was elected Vice President of Argentina as part of a national ticket and later moved to provincial executive leadership in Buenos Aires Province, confronting policy challenges involving provincial infrastructure, fiscal transfers from the National Congress and coordination with presidents from Argentina’s major parties.

Presidency bid and 2015 election

He was the Justicialist Party nominee in the 2015 presidential contest, competing in a runoff against a coalition candidate from Cambiemos led by Mauricio Macri. The campaign involved national debates, televised rallies, and policy platforms addressing relations with the International Monetary Fund, bilateral ties with Brazil, China and United States, and proposed reforms affecting provincial fiscal regimes. The 2015 runoff drew attention from regional leaders such as Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Néstor Kirchner’s political circle, and influential provincial governors from Santa Fe Province and Córdoba Province, culminating in a narrow defeat that reshaped the trajectory of Justicialist Party leadership.

Governor of Buenos Aires Province

He assumed the governorship of Buenos Aires Province, the nation’s most populous district, where he managed provincial administration, public works programs, transportation networks including commuter rail services linking La Plata with Buenos Aires, and social policy coordination with municipal authorities in La Matanza and Quilmes. His tenure involved fiscal negotiations with the national treasury, disputes over revenue sharing with governors of Mendoza Province and Tucumán Province, and oversight of provincial agencies responsible for health and education interacting with unions such as the Argentine Workers' Central Union and teachers’ federations. Infrastructure projects under his administration included highway and hospital works undertaken with provincial public-private partnerships and provincial secretariats collaborating with development banks like the Inter-American Development Bank.

Vice presidency and recent activities

He later served as Vice President of Argentina, presiding over the Senate of the Argentine Nation and representing the executive in legislative coordination with blocs from Cambiemos, Frente de Todos and smaller provincial delegations. In this capacity he engaged in foreign visits to partners including delegations from Spain, Russia, and China, and participated in multilateral forums that included representatives from UNASUR and Organization of American States. In recent years he has remained active within Justicialist Party internal politics, advising provincial leaders, appearing in public events with figures like Alberto Fernández and participating in civic discussions on provincial development, electoral strategies and party renewal ahead of subsequent national elections.

Category:1957 births Category:Argentine politicians Category:People from Buenos Aires Province