Carlos Saúl Menem was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the president of Argentina from 1989 to 1999. Ideologically,he identified as a Peronist and supported economically liberal policies. He led Argentina as president during the 1990s and implemented a free market liberalization. He served as President of the Justicialist Party for thirteen years,and his political approach became known as Menemism.
The politics of Argentina take place in the framework of what the Constitution defines as a federal presidential representative democratic republic,where the President of Argentina is both Head of State and Head of Government. Legislative power is vested in the two chambers of the Argentine National Congress. The Judiciary is independent,as are the Executive and the Legislature. Elections take place regularly on a multi-party system.
Isabel Martínez de Perón is an Argentine former politician who served as the 41st President of Argentina from 1974 to 1976. She was one of the first female republican heads of state in the world,and the first woman to serve as president of a country. Perón was the third wife of President Juan Perón. During her husband's third term as president from 1973 to 1974,she served as both the 29th Vice President and First Lady of Argentina. From 1974 until her resignation in 1985,she was also the 2nd President of the Justicialist Party.
Corrientes,officially the Province of Corrientes is a province in northeast Argentina,in the Mesopotamia region. It is surrounded by:Paraguay,the province of Misiones,Brazil,Uruguay,and the provinces of Entre Rios,Santa Fe and Chaco.
Juan Carlos Romero is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician and senator,and was Governor of Salta for 12 years. The former Peronist governor has accumulated political and economic power since 1995.
The New Party is a social-liberal political party in Corrientes Province,Argentina.
Juan Manuel Urtubey is an Argentine politician,lawyer,university professor and former governor of Salta Province. Formerly a senior figure in the ruling Front for Victory faction of the Justicialist Party (PJ) in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and chairman of both the Constitutional Affairs Committee and the Peronist Caucus,Urtubey became governor in the 2007 elections,being only 38 years old. He was reelected in 2011 with almost 60% of the vote,and in 2015 with 51% of the vote.
Aníbal Domingo Fernández is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician,lawyer,and certified public accountant. Throughout his career,he has remained a close ally to the former Presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Between 2021 and 2023,he served as Argentina's Minister of Security in the cabinet of President Alberto Fernández.
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.
JoséLuis Gioja is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician,former governor of San Juan Province and former President of the Argentine Senate.
Plural Consensus was a center-left Kirchnerist electoral alliance in Argentina acting as a political bloc in the Argentine Senate and elsewhere.
Roberto Fabián Ríos was an Argentine politician. He was intendente (mayor) of Corrientes from 2013 to 2017. Prior to that,he was a National Deputy and a National Senator for Corrientes Province. He also served as an official of the state-owned bank Banco de la Nación Argentina. Ríos,an electrical engineer by profession,was a member of the Justicialist Party.
The Argentine general election of 1958 was held on 23 February. Voters chose both the President and their legislators and with a turnout of 90.6%.
Ricardo Colombi is an Argentine lawyer and politician elected Governor of Corrientes Province in 2009.
Federal Peronism,also known as Dissident Peronism,is the faction or branch of either moderate,centrist or right-wing Peronism,that is currently identified mostly by its opposition to Kirchnerism,the left-wing faction of Peronism.
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.
Juana Larrauri de Abramí,also known as Juanita Larrauri was a tango singer and was among a group of the first women elected to the Argentine Senate. She was elected twice as a senator and in both cases lost her seat as a result of right-wing military coups;she was elected in 1951 and lost her seat in 1955,then was elected again in 1973 and lost her seat again in 1976.
Gustavo Adolfo Valdés is an Argentine Radical Civic Union politician who is currently governor of Corrientes Province,since 10 December 2017. Previously,from 2013 to 2017,he was a National Deputy for Corrientes.
Nancy Aracely Sand Giorasi is an Argentine teacher and politician,currently serving as National Deputy representing Corrientes Province. A member of the Justicialist Party,Sand was previously served as intendenta (mayor) of Bella Vista from 2009 to 2013,and as member of the Provincial Senate from 2015 to 2019.
