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.
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.
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.
JoséJuan Bautista Pampuro was an Argentine politician of the Justicialist Party. He served as Defense Minister under President Kirchner and also as senator for Buenos Aires Province. From 2006 to 2011 he was the Provisional President of the Senate.
Jorge Enrique Taiana is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician who served as the country's Minister of Defense from 2021 to 2023. Taiana previously served as Foreign Minister in the administrations of President Néstor Kirchner and his successor,Cristina Fernández de Kirchner,from 2005 to 2010,and as a National Senator for Buenos Aires from 2019 to 2021.
Ángel Eduardo Maza is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician. He was the governor of La Rioja Province during several terms,until he was ousted by impeachment in 2007. His sister,Ada Maza,is a national senator.
Enrique Ángel Angelelli Carletti was a bishop of the Catholic Church in Argentina who was assassinated during the Dirty War for his involvement with social issues. Angelelli commitment to the "Church of the Poor" offered a model for the future Pope Francis.
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.
Ada Mercedes Maza is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. She sat in the Argentine Senate representing La Rioja Province in the majority block of the Front for Victory.
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.
Events from the year 1997 in Argentina
Amalia Beatriz "Amira" Yoma is an Argentine political advisor and restaurateur. She is best known for being the Director of Hearings in the presidential administration of her then brother-in-law Carlos Menem,and for being charged in the drug money laundering scandal which came to be called Yomagate.
Cecilia Moreau is an Argentine politician,currently serving as National Deputy representing Buenos Aires Province since 2015,and as President of the Chamber of Deputies from 2022 to 2023. She is the first woman to hold that position. Previously,from 2007 to 2011 and again in 2015,Moreau served as a member of the Buenos Aires Province Chamber of Deputies elected in the First Electoral Section.
Dina Esther Rezinovsky is an Argentine politician. She served as a National Deputy elected in the Federal Capital from 2019 to 2023. She is a member of Republican Proposal (PRO).
Mirtha María Teresita Luna is an Argentine politician. Formerly a member of the Justicialist Party,she served as Vice Governor of La Rioja Province from 2007 to 2011,and later as a National Senator for La Rioja from 2011 to 2017. In 2019,she left the Justicialist Party and became part of the Cambiemos coalition.
María Florencia López is an Argentine politician of the Justicialist Party. She has been a National Senator for La Rioja Province since 2023. She previously served as Vice Governor of La Rioja from 2019 to 2023,under Governor Ricardo Quintela,as intendenta (mayor) of Arauco from 2015 to 2019,and as a member of the provincial legislature for Arauco from 2011 to 2015.
Martín Alexis Menem is an Argentine lawyer,businessman and politician,elected national deputy for La Rioja. He served as provincial deputy of La Rioja between 2021 and 2023. He was appointed to preside over the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies as of December 10,2023.
