Rubén Héctor Giustiniani (born November 3,1955,in Rosario) is an Argentine politician from the Socialist Party (PS),who was National Senator representing Santa Fe Province from 2003 to 2015. An engineer by occupation,he also served as president of the Socialist Party. [1]
Giustiniani was a National Deputy from 1997 to 2003,when he was elected senator for the minority. He was the first Socialist to become a member of the upper house of Congress since Alfredo Palacios (in 1960). [2] In 2007,he was a candidate for the vice-presidency of Argentina,accompanying Elisa Carrió,in the general election held on 28 October 2007,in which he and Carriógained second place.
Civic Coalition ARI,until October 2009 known as Support for an Egalitarian Republic,is a centrist political party in Argentina founded in 2002 by Elisa Carrió.
The Radical Civic Union is a centrist and liberal political party in Argentina. It has been ideologically heterogeneous,ranging from conservatism to social democracy,but since 1995 it has been a member of the Socialist International.
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. Carrióis considered a liberal,Christian,and heterodox politician in Argentina.
Hermes Juan Binner was an Argentine physician and politician who served as Governor of Santa Fe from 2007 to 2011. Binner was the first Socialist to serve as governor of an Argentine province,and the first non-Peronist to rule Santa Fe since the last transition to democracy in 1983.
Horacio Daniel Usandizaga,also known informally as El Vasco,is an Argentine politician.
Argentina held national parliamentary elections on Sunday,23 October 2005. For the purpose of these elections,each of the 23 provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires are considered electoral districts.
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.
Ricardo Gómez Diez is an Argentine politician. He was until 2007 a senator for Salta Province for the Salta Renewal Party (PRS) and was vice-presidential candidate of the national Recrear Federal Movement,now part of the PRO alliance. In 2009 he is a candidate for National Deputy for the Civic and Social Agreement alliance of Radicals and the Civic Coalition,amongst others.
Héctor Cavallero,nicknamed El Tigre,was an Argentine politician,who was mayor of Rosario,Santa Fe,and a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for the Province of Santa Fe.
María Fabiana Ríos is an Argentine politician and founder of the Patagonian Social Party. She was the governor of the province of Tierra del Fuego from December 17,2007,to December 10,2015. She was first elected with the support of the party ARI,but she left it in 2010 and created her own party,with which she was re-elected. She was the only female governor in Argentina,until the election of Lucia Corpacci of Catamarca Province. She was succeeded in office by another woman,Rosana Bertone.
Alfredo Bravo was an Argentine Socialist politician,teacher,leader of the teachers' union CTERA,human rights fighter,and legislator.
The Civic Coalition was a political coalition in Argentina. It was founded by Elisa Carrió,as an association supported by the ARI party),as well as a number of other political groups and individual political leaders,notably UPT - Union for All of Patricia Bullrich and GEN - Generation for a National Encounter of Margarita Stolbizer.
Martín Lousteau is an Argentine economist and politician of the Radical Civic Union (UCR). He is National Senator for Buenos Aires. Since 2023,he has been President of the UCR National Committee.
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.
JoséCarlos Martínez was an Argentine politician,formerly of ARI. He sat in the Argentine Senate representing Tierra del Fuego Province.
The Social and Civic Agreement was a center-left congressional alliance in Argentina,integrated by the Radical Civic Union (UCR) the Socialist Party (PS) and the Civic Coalition ARI (CC-ARI),which acted as an umbrella national electoral alliance at the last 2009 Argentine legislative elections. The Civic Coalition,which was a founder member of the Social and Civic Agreement,left the alliance on 12 August 2010.
General elections were held in Argentina on Sunday,23 October 2011. Incumbent president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of the Front for Victory won in a landslide,with 54.11% of the vote,securing a second term in office. The Front for Victory won just over half of the seats in the National Congress. As of 2023,this marked the last time the vice president-elect wasn't a female.
Mónica Haydée Fein is an Argentine biochemist and Socialist Party politician who was intendente (mayor) of Rosario from 2011 to 2019. She has been a National Deputy since 2021,and previously held the same position from 2007 to 2011.
Broad Front UNEN was an center-left political coalition in Argentina. It arose through an alliance between Radical Civic Union,Civic Coalition ARI,Proyecto Sur,Freemen of the South Movement,Socialist Party,Authentic Socialist Party,and GEN.
The Argentine law 24,012 or Argentine quota law seeks to increase the number of women in government in Argentina,by setting quotas for the minimum representation of women on the ballots of each party at the legislative elections. The law was enacted in 1991,during the presidency of Carlos Menem,and was the first gender quota law to be passed in Latin America. Following Argentina's lead,eleven other Latin American countries have since introduced gender quotas to increase female representation at the national level.