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Carlos Zannini was born on 27 August, 1954 in Villa Nueva, Córdoba Province, Argentina, is an Argentine lawyer and politician. Discover Carlos Zannini's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 27 August 1954
Birthday 27 August
Birthplace Villa Nueva, Córdoba Province, Argentina
Nationality Argentina

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1954

Alberto Carlos Zannini (born 27 August 1954) is an Argentine lawyer and politician who was the Legal and Technical Secretary of the Presidency under presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner from 2003 to 2015.

Zannini was described as “one of Kirchner’s most trusted men” and as “the power behind the President.” It has been said that his key attribute is his ability “to interpret the decisions of Cristina Kirchner” and to take “the political decisions of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner throughout the ‘winning decade’ and translated them into decrees, resolutions, and bills.”

He is nicknamed “El Chino” (The Chinese) because of “his admiration during his youth for the policies of Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong) in the People's Republic of China.”

Zannini was born in the small town of Villa Nueva, in eastern Córdoba Province.

His father was a bricklayer and his mother was a housewife.

In his childhood he was a serious tennis player.

1970

He began to be active in politics in the 1970s, with the rise to power of Héctor Cámpora and the third presidency of Juan Perón.

He considered himself a Maoist and belonged to a Maoist group called the Communist Vanguard.

Zannini has also been described as being perhaps the one person most responsible for “the progress that has been made in building the Kirchner model.” He has allegedly succeeded in “cornering power” through methods drawn from Antonio Gramsci which “are much more effective than the armed struggle” that he and others engaged in during the 1970s.

1976

After the 1976 coup because of his membership in the Communist Vanguard, Zannini was arrested and held in the prison of La Plata for four years.

Eventually he was released and completed law school.

1982

In 1982, Zannini organized “the Peronist boys” in El Carmen.

He was invited by a friend, Roberto Arizmendi, to move to Río Gallegos.

1984

There he met Néstor Kirchner in 1984, who was then an emerging politician and lawyer, and Cristina Fernández.

Zannini held various positions within the civil service, mostly in the province of Santa Cruz, and invariably at the right hand of Kirchner.

1986

His first wife died in 1986, a few months after the birth of her second child.

He is married to Patricia Alsúa, an attorney with whom he had two children.

1987

In 1987 he was appointed Secretary of Municipal Government in Rio Gallegos.

1991

When Kirchner was elected governor in 1991, Zannini was appointed Minister of the Interior of the province.

When Cristina Fernández resigned from the provincial legislature to join the National Congress, Zannini was elected to replace her.

1994

He has been described as the “architect of two constitutional reforms in the Patagonian province,” one of which, in 1994, enabled Néstor Kirchner to run for a second term as governor of Santa Cruz, and the second of which, in 1998, established term limits and eliminated the consanguinity clause.

1995

He also implemented the “voting system that assures the ruling party an overwhelming majority in the provincial legislature.” One source states that his greatest achievement was a 1995 law expanding the Provincial Court from three to five members, giving Kirchner an "automatic majority."

1999

In 1999 he was appointed by Kirchner as president of the Superior Court of Santa Cruz.

2003

On 25 May 2003 Zannini was appointed the Legal and Technical Secretary of the Presidency of Argentina by President Néstor Kirchner.

2007

He was confirmed in this position in 2007 and 2011 by President Cristina Fernández.

His office is “on the ground floor of the State House, behind the Patio de las Palmeras.” He “has a direct relationship with the president of the Supreme Court of Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti,” and this friendship has been key to the progress of judicial reform in the national legislature.

Zannini has been described as having been a Kirchnerite from the very beginning and as having “never left” the fold.

“First at the local level of Rio Gallegos, then in the provincial government and finally as president,” writes one source, “Nestor Kirchner was always flanked by Zannini, the man who drafted speeches, decrees, bills and, above all, telling him where and when or not to sign it.” Zannini has told both Kirchners “what to veto, whom to appoint to key positions,” and so on.

Nothing happens in the government “without his permission and supervision.”

2012

Zannini was prosecuted in 2012 of 38 counts of illegal enrichment, fraud, and other forms of corruption.

However, the case was suspended for a time and has faced several roadblocks put up by members of the presidential cabinet and government.

Recently he has granted the retirement Payments back to the Ex-vicepresident Amado Bodou creating a controversial point on Alberto Fernandez government, (AB:former VP was found Guilty of all charges for corruption and misslead of National foundings as well as lie on tax form exemptions)

He is the father of four children from two marriages.

2013

He was described in October 2013 as “the strong man, the real power behind the scenes,” the “power in the shadows,” the "juridical architect of Kirchnerism,” and “the most powerful functionary in the government.”

It has been surmised that his strength lies not in his influence on the President’s decisions but in his ability to interpret the President’s wishes.

Although it is Vice President Amado Boudou who formally replaces the president when she is ill, Zannini has been described as being the real seat of power in her absence.

2015

Buenos Aires Province Governor Daniel Scioli, the front runner in the Kirchnerist Front for Victory primary for the nomination, named Zannini as his running mate in his campaign for the 2015 presidential election.