Background
Vidal was born in Buenos Aires.
politician Governor of Buenos Aires Province
Vidal was born in Buenos Aires.
Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina.
Affiliated with the Republican Proposal party, she was appointed Minister of Social Development of the City of Buenos Aires, and in 2011 was elected Deputy Mayor. She is current Governor of the province of Buenos Aires, the largest Argentine province and home to 40% of Argentina"s population, being the first woman and the first non-Peronist since 1987 to be voted into this office. She was raised in the Flores ward and enrolled in the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, earning a degree in Political Science.
She began her career in Grupo Sophia, a think tank founded by Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.
Vidal was elected to the Buenos Aires City Legislature in 2003, and was appointed Chair of the Committee on Women and Youth. She served in the Human Resources Department at PAMI (the national health insurance service for the elderly and disabled), and as adviser to ANSES (the social security administration), as well as the nation"s Ministries of Social Development and Foreign Relations.
Vidal was fielded in the Republican Proposal (Public Relations Officer) party list as a candidate for a seat in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for Buenos Aires Province in 2005, though unsuccessfully. She was later elected to the Buenos Aires City Legislature.
The election of Public Relations Officer leader Mauricio Macri as Mayor of Buenos Aires in 2007 led to Vidal"s nomination as the city"s Minister of Social Development.
Vidal"s profile rose following the 2009 election of Deputy Mayor Gabriela Michetti to a seat in the Chamber of Deputies, and she became Mayor Macri"s most visible female adviser. Following Macri"s decision to forfeit a Public Relations Officer candidacy for the 2011 presidential election, and instead seek a second term as mayor, he nominated Vidal as his running mate. The duo were reelected by a landslide on July 31, 2011, receiving over 64% of the vote with sociologist Daniel Filmus coming in 2nd place.
Macri selected Vidal as the candidate of his party to run for governor of the Buenos Aires Province in the 2015 elections.
The Radical Civic Union, allied with Public Relations Officer in the coalition Cambiemos, proposed to replaced her with Ángel Posse, but Macri kept Vidal. In another negotiation it was proposed that Sergio Massa resigned as candidate to the presidency and ran for governor in Macri"s ticket, but Macri kept Vidal as candidate again.
Governor of Buenos Aires
= Cabinet Vidal announced her cabinet on December 4. Federico Salvai, minister of government
Roberto Gigante, minister of coordination and control
Hernán Lacunza, minister of economy
Cristian Ritondo, minister of security
Edgardo Cenzón, minister of planification and infrastructure
Alejandro Finocchiaro, minister of education
Alberto Mahiques, minister of justice
Leonardo Sarquis, minister of agrarian affairs
Santiago López Medrano, minister of social development
Zulma Ortíz, minister of health
Jorge Elustondo, minister of production
Marcelo Villegas, minister of labor.
She was named director of the group"s social policy desk in 2000, as well as of Fundación Creer y Crecer, a think tank organized by Commitment to Change, a conservative political party led by mayoral candidate Mauricio Macri.
lieutenant is composed by politicians from the Republican Proposal, the Radical Civic Union and former members of Scioli"s cabinet.
