Argentine President Mauricio Macri Wins Presidential Office and Palace

Summary: Argentine President Mauricio Macri occupies the presidential office Casa Rosada (Pink House) and palace Quinta de Olivos as of Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015.

Opposition presidential candidate Mauricio Macri with his wife Juliana Awada, holding their daughter Antonia, after winning a runoff presidential election in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015 (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan): Mauricio Macri @mauriciomacri via Twitter Nov. 22, 2015: Mauricio Macri @mauriciomacri, via Twitter Nov. 23, 2015

Supporters of Argentine President Mauricio Macri assume 2016 to be different from 2015 since their candidate-elect is the successor Dec. 10, 2015, to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the Republic's outgoing two-term president.

Mauricio Macri, as the nation’s current president, brings to Argentina economic, political and social focuses that are unlike the policies and the programs of his predecessor. His victory comes about through Cambiemos (“Let’s change”), political coalition of Coalición Cívica (Civic Coalition), Propuesta Republicana (Republican Proposal) and Unión Cívica Radical (Radical Civic Union). He draws upon education at Buenos Aires’ Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina and experience as Boca Juniors soccer club president and Buenos Aires’ chief of government.

President Macri expects to reverse 21st-century woes.

Social scientists specialized in Caribbean, Central and South American continental and insular nations furnish the term ABC and M countries as success stories in Latin America.

Latin Americanists give the acronym ABC countries to Argentina, Brazil and Chile in South America and the acronym M to Mexico in Central and North America. The four-country acronym honors overall the broadly, consistently predictable degree of political stability, extent of agro-industrial development, level of economic growth and participation in world markets. Argentina is famous for exports of beef, grains and music, for immigration from Italy and, like Brazil and Chile but unlike Mexico, for immigrants from Germany.

Argentina joins Brazil and Mexico in claiming Latin America’s only nuclear power plants.

Argentina’s national government keeps an even keel of elitism, militarism and populism since the 1940s through seven decades of expanding government roles and labor-oriented populist programs.

Unlike the outgoing Fernández presidency, the incoming Macri presidency leans not at all toward the husband-and-wife Peronist legacies of the 1940s, the 1950s and the 1970s. Economic analysts and political historians mention local industry, protectionist trade and welfare program commitments during the first of two four-year terms for Argentina’s second woman president. They note the Fernández government’s currency controls, export taxes, and import restrictions, despite defaulted debts, dollar-poor central banking, double-digit inflation, fiscal deficits and global market isolation.

Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri offers less locally bound, more internationally directed economic policies.

Argentine President Mauricio Macri promises to reverse the socio-economic distress of high unemployment, low-priced exports, oversupplied local markets, protectionist trade, undersupplied international markets and underutilized resources.

The incoming Macri presidency quantifies economic revivalism in terms of eliciting international investors, emphasizing technical services, encouraging Pampas (grassy plains) agro-industrialism and exploiting shale oil deposits. It represents the first non-Partido Justicialista, post-2001 presidency not from 29th and 40th President Juan Domingo Perón’s and 41st President Isabel Martínez de Perón’s Justicialist Party. Argentine President Mauricio Macri states after oath-taking: “Multiplying job opportunities is the only way to achieve prosperity where, today, there is an unacceptable level of poverty.”

It turns out that electoral victory lets President-elect Macri prove that Cambiemos works.

Argentine President Mauricio Macri dons the presidential sash Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015, the day of his investiture: Casa Rosada Argentina, CC BY 2.5 Argentina, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Opposition presidential candidate Mauricio Macri with his wife Juliana Awada, holding their daughter Antonia, after winning a runoff presidential election in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015 (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan): Mauricio Macri @mauriciomacri, via Twitter Nov. 22, 2015, @ https://twitter.com/mauriciomacri/status/668610146222915584

Argentine President Mauricio Macri dons the presidential sash Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015, the day of his investiture: Casa Rosada Argentina, CC BY 2.5 Argentina, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Macri_recibe_atributos_del_mando_en_Casa_Rosada.jpg

For further information:

Bronstein, Hugh. 10 December 2015. “Macri’s Challenge: Restore Argentina’s Long-Lost Economic Power.” Reuters > Markets > Bonds.
Available @ http://www.reuters.com/article/argentina-macri-idUSL1N13W0T020151210

Bronstein, Hugh; and Lough, Richard. 10 December 2015. “Argentina’s Macri Sworn in as President, Ousting Peronists.” Yahoo! News > News > Reuters.
Available @ https://www.yahoo.com/news/macris-challenge-restore-argentinas-long-lost-economic-power-050834432--business.html?

Bronstein, Hugh; and Marsh, Sarah. 11 December 2015. “Argentina’s Macri Sworn in as President, Ousting Peronists.” Reuters > Markets.
Available @ http://www.reuters.com/article/us-argentina-macri-idUSKBN0TT0DA20151211

Goñi, Uki. 10 December 2015. “Argentina: Cristina Fernández Exits Stage Left, But for How Long?” Reuters > World > Argentina.
Available @ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/10/argentina-thousands-gather-to-hear-president-cristina-fernandezs-parting-shots

Mauricio Macri @mauriciomacri. 22 November 2015. "¡Es acá y es ahora!! ¡Vamos Argentina!! #Cambiamos." Twitter.
Available @ https://twitter.com/mauriciomacri/status/668610146222915584

Mauricio Macri @mauriciomacri. 23 November 2015. "Gracias a todos los argentinos que ayer transformaron la sana rebeldía en la decisión de cambiar. #Cambiamos." Twitter.
Available @ https://twitter.com/mauriciomacri/status/668787901333954560