Scioli will take over the Ministry of the Interior. He will continue to work as a consultant to the government.
He is the son of a former president of the Republic of Argentina, who died in 2002. He has been a member of the Senate since 2003. He was the first candidate to run for the presidency in 2008, losing to Barack Obama in the first round of voting. He said he would not resign, and that he would continue to serve in the Senate until the end of his term.