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Anibal Fernandez
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Anibal Domingo Fernandez (b. Quilmes, 1957-01-09 is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician, currently Minister of Justice in the government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and previously Interior Minister under President Nestor Kirchner.
Born in Buenos Aires Province, Fernandez studied to become an accountant and lawyer. He entered public service, working for the municipalities of Quilmes Partido and Florencio Varela Partido from 1983. From 1985 to 1991 he also worked for the Peronist bloc in the Senate of the Province of Buenos Aires.
In 1991, Fernandez was elected Mayor of Quilmes. In 1995 he became a provincial senator and chaired the Public Health committee. He won the award for best senator in 1996. In June 1997 he was appointed to assist the province's Minister of Government and Justice, Dr. Jose Maria Diaz Bancalari. In December 1999, Governor Carlos Ruckauf made him Secretary of Labour, promoting him to be the province's first Minister of Labour in 2001.
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