Sergio Massa

Sergio Tomás Massa (born 28 April 1972) is an Argentine politician who was a candidate for President of Argentina in the 2023 election. He became the country's Minister of Economy on 2 August 2022. He was the president of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies from 2019 until 2022. He was also a national deputy for Buenos Aires Province. 

Massa is the founder of the peronist Renewal Front. He was Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers from 2008 to 2009 under Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

He was a former member of the Justicialist Party. He founded a new political party, the Renewal Front, in 2013. 

As the leader of the United for a New Alternative coalition, Massa ran for president in 2015, finishing third in the first round of voting with 21% of the vote. 

In 2023, he ran for president for a second time as part of the Union for the Homeland coalition in October 2023. He won 36.6% of votes to Javier Milei's 29.9%, leading to a November run-off. He would go on to lose the November run-off to Milei by a margin of nearly 12%.

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Category:Presidents of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies
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