Mendoza,officially Province of Mendoza,is a province of Argentina,in the western central part of the country in the Cuyo region. It borders San Juan to the north,La Pampa and Neuquén to the south,San Luis to the east,and the republic of Chile to the west;the international limit is marked by the Andes mountain range. Its capital city is the homonymous city of Mendoza.
The Radical Civic Union is a centrist and social-liberal political party in Argentina. It has been ideologically heterogeneous,ranging from social liberalism to social democracy. The UCR is a member of the Socialist International.
JoséManuel de la Sota was an Argentine politician who was a member of Justicialist Party. He was the governor of Córdoba Province from 1999 until 2007,and was reelected to the post for the 2011–15 term.
Miguel Ángel Pichetto is an Argentine lawyer and conservative peronist politician. He is Auditor General of the Nation. He was National Senator for Río Negro Province for eighteen years and was the vice-presidential candidate of Juntos por el Cambio.
Argentina held national presidential and legislative elections on Sunday,28 October 2007,and elections for provincial governors took place on staggered dates throughout the year. For the national elections,each of the 23 provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires are considered electoral districts. Voter turnout was 76.2%. Buenos Aires Province Senator and First Lady Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of the Front for Victory won the election by 45.28% of votes against Elisa Carrióof Civic Coalition ARI,making her the second female president of Argentina and the first female president to be directly elected. She broke the 40 percent barrier and won in the first round. Elisa Carriówon in the city of Buenos Aires and came second with more than 20 percent of the votes. Third was Roberto Lavagna,who won in Córdoba.
Arturo Colombi is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician,and former governor of Corrientes Province.
Julio César Cleto Cobos is an Argentine politician who was the Vice President of Argentina in the administration of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner from 2007 to 2011. He started his political career as member of the Radical Civic Union party (UCR),becoming Governor of the Province of Mendoza in 2003. He was expelled from the UCR in 2007,and was then selected by presidential candidate Cristina Fernández de Kirchner,of the ruling Front for Victory (FpV),as her candidate for vice-president in the elections of that year,which they won.
Roberto Raúl Iglesias is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician,a former leader of the party and formerly a deputy and governor of Mendoza Province.
Miguel Saiz was an Argentine politician latterly of the Radical Civic Union (UCR),who served as governor of Río Negro Province from 2003 until 2011.
JoséOctavio Bordón is an Argentine politician and diplomat. He was governor of Mendoza Province from 1987 to 1991,and served in both houses of the National Congress as a National Deputy and a National Senator. Most recently,he was the Argentine ambassador to the United States from 2003 to 2007 and to Chile from 2016 to 2019.
Carlos Alberto Verna is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician who was governor of La Pampa Province twice,from 2003 to 2007 and from 2015 to 2019. He was also a National Senator for La Pampa for two terms,and served as intendente (mayor) of General Pico.
Arturo Lafalla is an Argentine politician of the Justicialist Party,in Mendoza Province.
Kirchnerism is an Argentine political movement based on populist ideals formed by the supporters of Néstor Kirchner and his wife Cristina Fernández de Kirchner,who consecutively served as Presidents of Argentina. Although considered a branch of Peronism,it is opposed by some factions of Peronists and generally considered to fall into the category of left-wing populism.
Plural Consensus was a center-left Kirchnerist electoral alliance in Argentina acting as a political bloc in the Argentine Senate and elsewhere.
Mónica Troadello is an Argentine politician and a member of the Justicialist Party. She is a former Senator for Mendoza Province and was part of the majority Front for Victory parliamentary group.
Ernesto Sanz is a former Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union and one of the founders of Cambiemos. He served in the Argentine Senate representing Mendoza Province from 2003 to 2015.
Ricardo Colombi is an Argentine lawyer and politician elected Governor of Corrientes Province in 2009.
Federal Peronism,also known as Dissident Peronism and Menemism,are the informal names given to a conservative political alliance between Justicialist Party figures,currently identified mostly by its opposition to ruling Kirchnerism,the left-wing faction.
K Radicalism also known as Radicales K were a faction within the Radical Civic Union (UCR),a political party in Argentina.
Francisco Pérez is an Argentine lawyer and politician elected Governor of Mendoza Province in 2011.
