both acknowledged that their relationship as father and son was passionate and, sometimes, conflicting. For none was easy, although never hid their differences. Father of six – including the nation’s President, Mauricio Macri-, Franco Macri died Saturday at age 88 in the city of Buenos Aires. It appeared on his official Twitter account as “Argentine businessman, Chief senior of the Republic of China for investment in Latin America and founder of the Macri Group”. Married in first wedlock with Alicia Beatriz Blanco Villegas, Member of a family of landowners from Tandil, together had four children, Mauritius, Sandra, Mariano and Gianfranco, while his second spouse was the psychologist Cristina Grieffer, with “whom he had to his youngest daughter, Florence Macri.Con the President of the nation, Mauricio Macri, was several years distanced and starting in 2016, published an extensive open letter in which acknowledged the”frictions”had been left behind and which stressed the” -sometimes excessive – and special attention”which he dedicated to Mauricio, who very young, at the age of five, wearing their companies because”it was going to be useful for their future”.
Franco Macri admitted the “tense” relationship with your child “much has been said of the troubled relationship between us. More my fault than for his. I tried to be the best father I could. Maybe I put a too high rod with my expectations and what I had done. Perhaps, as he himself says, I competed with him when it was becoming man”, said Franco in 2016.
SOCMA founder wanted his son to replace him at the head of the powerful business group.
Among the most painful moments of his life, he mentioned the kidnapping that the current head of State suffered for 12 days, in 1991, by a band of Commissioners, the subsequent kidnapping of another of his daughters, Florence, in 2003 and the death of another of them , Sandra in 2014.
Father and son after the kidnapping of Mauritius in 2017, in one of his last public statements from Punta del Este, Franco Macri described the first year of management of change with a 5, although he clarified that “more could be done”.
“You have the mind of a President, but not the heart,” went on to say his son Franco.
Also revealed an episode of health which nearly costs her life before presidential elections: “received specific information of reasonably credible people that warned me that if Mauritius won, they killed it. My reaction was very exaggerated: I had a hemorrhage and lost 80 percent of my blood. How I survived because my driver took me at 4 AM to the Italian hospital”.
“It took me years to forgive him that it had gone of companies with such hard work had founded”, recognized Franco on the decision of Mauritius leave the family business in 1995 to search become President of Boca Juniors and then begin your career policy.
Finally, she could see to assume his son as President of the nation, and said he felt the night of the ballot in which Macri won Daniel Scioli: “Knew then that should lay down my fears, leaving any friction with Mauricio and give him my full support” It reinforced until his last days of life.
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