Adolfo Rodríguez Saá is an Argentine Peronist politician. Born in a family that was highly influential in the history of the San Luis Province, he became the province's governor in 1983, after the end of the National Reorganization Process military dictatorship. He remained governor up to 2001, being re-elected in successive elections.
La Rioja is a province of Argentina located in the west of the country. The landscape of the province consist of a series of arid to semi-arid mountain ranges and agricultural valleys in between. It is in one of these valleys that the capital of the province, the city of la La Rioja, lies. Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise Catamarca, Córdoba, San Luis and San Juan. The dinosaur Riojasaurus is named after the province.
Alejandro Vicente López y Planes was an Argentine writer and politician who acted as interim President of Argentina from July 7 to August 18, 1827. He also wrote the lyrics of the Argentine National Anthem adopted on May 11, 1813.
The following lists events that happened during 2000 in Argentina.
Events from the year 2001 in Argentina
Alberto José Rodriguez Saá is an Argentine lawyer and politician. He is the Governor of San Luis Province. He was presidential candidate for the center-right peronism, Federal Peronism, in 2007 and 2011.
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 Carrió of 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 Carrió won 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.
José Luis Gioja is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, former governor of San Juan Province and former President of the Argentine Senate.
Jorge Alberto Obeid was an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician who was twice governor of Santa Fe Province and member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies.
Argentina held presidential elections on 24 October 1999. Legislative elections were held on four dates, 8 August, 12 September, 26 September and 24 October, though most polls took place on 24 October.
Alfredo Avelín was an Argentine politician, physician and author. He served as Governor of his province of San Juan and as a member of the Argentine Senate and Chamber of Deputies.
Wbaldino Acosta was an Argentine politician who served as Governor of his province of San Juan.
Juan Carlos Marino is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician. From 2003 to 2021, he sat in the Argentine Senate representing La Pampa Province.
Roberto Gustavo Basualdo is an Argentine politician, formerly of the Justicialist Party (PJ), now in Cambiemos. He sits in the Argentine Senate representing San Juan Province (Argentina) for the Production and Labour party.
Sergio Tomás Massa is an Argentine politician currently serving as the country's Minister of Economy since 3 August 2022. From 2019 to 2022, he served as President of the Chamber of Deputies, while serving as a National Deputy for the centre-left political coalition Frente de Todos elected in Buenos Aires Province.
Miguel Alberto Romero Lugo is a Puerto Rican lawyer, who is the current Mayor of San Juan. He was also Secretary of Labor and Human Resources of Puerto Rico (2009–2012) and former Chief of Staff of Puerto Rico during Governor Luis Fortuño's administration (2012–2013) and senator for the San Juan District (2017–2020).
Arnoldo Castillo was an Argentine politician.
Events from the year 1999 in Argentina
