REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BUENOS AIRES -- Susana Malcorra, the chief of staff of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, has been named Argentina's incoming foreign minister, president-elect Mauricio Macri said Tuesday.

"She is an intelligent, energetic and wise woman. And she will be coming to add her perspective on foreign policy in this new era of change we are beginning," Macri said in a statement.

Macri, 56, the favored candidate of big businesses and foreign investors, beat his leftist rival Daniel Scioli by less than three percentage points in Sunday's vote, ending 12 years of rule by the populist Peronist movement.

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