Juan Manzur will become the new chief of staff of the Nation, so he must take leave from the position he held until today, as governor of the province of Tucumán.La governorship of one of the largest provinces in the country won in 2015, when he succeeded José Alperovich. In 2019 he was re-elected defeating his former political boss.
I thank our President @alferdez and our Vice President @CFKArgentina for the trust placed in me to assume the position of Chief minister of the Nation. I will always be where it is most useful to the Homeland and the Peronist movement. — Juan Manzur (@JuanManzurOK)
September 18, 2021
In the letter she published on Thursday night, Cristina Kirchner unleashed the electoral victory that Manzur achieved on Sunday, amid the electoral catastrophe registered in 17 of the 24 provinces. In 2003 he became Minister of Health of Tucumán as part of the Cabinet of Governor José Alperovich and in 2009 he assumed the Minister of Health of the Nation, under the presidency of Cristina Kirchner.
At that time he replaced Graciela Ocaña, who was expelled from cabinet K for her handling of the Influenza A (H1 N1) pandemic. To assume the head of cabinet in place of Cafiero -who passes to the Foreign Ministry-, Manzur will leave the province in the hands of Osvaldo Jaldo, his deputy governor but political opponent in Tucumán, but whom he defeated in internal elections on Sunday in the PASO.
Despite having been recommended by the vice president for the position, Manzur has an old confrontation with CFK for having tried to retire her in 2018, when he said in an interview with Clarín that Cristina “is already there, it’s over.” In addition to his political experience and arrival at different terminals of power in the PJ, the Tucuman holds good relations with the establishent both locally and internationally.
