Chaco,officially the Province of Chaco,is one of the 23 provinces in Argentina. Its capital and largest city,is Resistencia. It is located in the north-east of the country.
Elisa María Avelina "Lilita" Carrió is an Argentine lawyer,professor,and politician. She is the leader of Civic Coalition ARI,one of the founders of Cambiemos,and was National Deputy for Chaco Province and Buenos Aires.
The Gran Chaco or Dry Chaco is a sparsely populated,hot and semiarid lowland natural region of the Río de la Plata basin,divided among eastern Bolivia,western Paraguay,northern Argentina,and a portion of the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul,where it is connected with the Pantanal region. This land is sometimes called the Chaco Plain.
At the national level,Argentina elects a head of state and a legislature. The franchise extends to all citizens aged 16 and over,and voting is mandatory for all those who are between 18 and 70 years of age.
Ángel Rozas is a retired Argentine politician. A member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR),Rozas was Governor of Chaco Province from 1995 to 2003,and served as a National Senator for Chaco from 2013 to 2019.
Departments form the second level of administrative division,and are subdivided in municipalities. They are extended in all of Argentina except for the Province of Buenos Aires and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires,the national capital,each of which has different administrative arrangements.
Jorge Milton Capitanich is an Argentine politician,businessman,and accountant who is currently Governor of Chaco Province since 2019,having held the position before from 2007 to 2013 and then from February to December 2015. A member of the Justicialist Party,he previously served as Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers from 2013 until 2015,serving under President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner,as intendente (mayor) of Chaco's capital city,Resistencia,and as National Senator,representing Chaco as well. Since 2007 he has also been president of the Sarmiento Athletic Club.
Mirian Belén Curletti is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician from Chaco Province,previously representing that Province in the Argentine Senate.
Alicia Ester Mastandrea is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician,formerly representing Chaco Province in the Argentine Senate,now a provincial deputy in that Province.
Roy Abelardo Nikisch is an Argentine Radical Civic Union senator,who served as governor of Chaco Province between 2003 and 2007.
Elena Mercedes Corregido is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. She sat in the Argentine Senate for Chaco Province in the majority Front for Victory block from 2007 to 2013.
Deolindo Bittel was a prominent Argentine politician.
Legislative elections were held in Argentina on 27 October 2013. Open primary elections (PASO) were previously held on 11 August 2013 to determine eligible party lists for the general election. As in 2011 –when such primaries were held for the first time –each party list had to reach a 1.5% threshold at the provincial level in order to proceed to the 27 October polls.
This electoral calendar for the year 2003 lists the national/federal direct elections to be held in 2003 in the de jure and de facto sovereign states. By-elections are excluded,though national referendums are included.
María Inés Patricia Elizabeth Pilatti Vergara is an Argentine politician,currently serving as a National Senator for Chaco Province since 2013. She previously served as a National Deputy from 2009 to 2013,elected in Chaco as well,and as a member of the Chaco Province Chamber of Deputies during two non-consecutive terms from 1997 to 2001 and from 2005 to 2009.
Analía Alexandra Rach Quiroga is an Argentine politician,currently serving as Vice Governor of Chaco Province,alongside Governor Jorge Capitanich,since 10 December 2019. From 2015 to 2019,Rach Quiroga was a National Deputy elected in Chaco Province for the Front for Victory.
María Lucila Masin is an Argentine politician,currently serving as National Deputy elected in Chaco Province. Masin was first elected in 2015 for the Front for Victory,and currently sits in the Frente de Todos bloc.
Aldo Adolfo Leiva is an Argentine politician and Falklands War veteran,currently serving as National Deputy elected in Chaco Province. A member of the Justicialist Party,Leiva was elected in 2019,and currently sits in the Frente de Todos parliamentary bloc. He previously served as intendente (mayor) of General Joséde San Martín,Chaco on two occasions,from 2009 to 2019,and from 2003 to 2008.
Elda Aída Pértile is an Argentine politician. Pértile has been active in politics since the 1980s;as a member of the local Acción Chaqueña party,she was elected intendenta (mayor) of Resistencia,Chaco in 1991,serving until 1995. She was also a member of the Resistencia City Council,and served in the Chamber of Deputies of Chaco during two consecutive terms from 2009 to 2017. From 2017 to 2021,she served as a National Deputy.
Aída Beatriz Máxima Ayala is an Argentine politician. She served as a National Deputy from 2017 to 2021,and as intendenta (mayor) of Resistencia,Chaco for 12 years,from 2003 to 2015. She also served as Secretary of Municipal Affairs from 2015 to 2017,during the presidency of Mauricio Macri.
