- Fernando de la Rúa
Fernando de la Rúa Bruno is an Argentine politician. He was president of the country from December 10 1999 to December 21 2001 for the Alliance for Work, Justice and Education (a political alliance of the Radical Civic Union and Frepaso). Born in Córdoba City, he attended the local Military Lyceum before entering the National University of Córdoba, from which he obtained his law degree. De la Rúa became involved in politics at a young age.
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Cristina Elisabeth Fernández is a politician from La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a former Senator for Buenos Aires Province, former First Lady and current Argentine president. She is Argentina's first elected woman president but not the first to run the country.
- Daniel Scioli
Daniel Scioli. At present he is the Vice-President of Argentina and presides over the Senate of the nation’s congress. (May 25, 2003–Present). He is a sportsman, an entrepreneur and a politician.
- Rafael Bielsa
Rafael Antonio Bielsa is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician from Rosario, province of Santa Fe. Bielsa spent his childhood in Morteros in Córdoba, the birthplace of his mother. He studied at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Rosario and became a lawyer. He is also a poet, writer and essayist. In 1974 Bielsa started working at the Federal Tribunals of Rosario.
- Rodolfo Terragno
Rodolfo Terragno is an Argentine Senator, lawyer and former journalist. He is also a researcher for the Institute of Latin American Studies and for the London School of Economics. He is married to Sonia Pascual Sánchez and has two grown-up children. Terragno was Chief of Staff for President Fernando de la Rúa between 1999 and 2000 and is currently serving as Senator for Buenos Aires city until 2007.
- José Octavio Bordón
José Octavio Bordón is an Argentine politician and diplomat. A former governor and candidate for President of Argentina, he has been the Argentine Ambassador to the United States since June 2003. Bordón graduated in sociology from the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires in 1970. He was Professor of Political Sociology at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo 1972-1976 and again 1983-1995. He became President of the Fundación Andina in 1982.
- Ángel Rozas
Ángel Rozas is an Argentine politician. He is a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) and has been de facto leader of that party. Rozas was born in General Pinedo, Chaco Province to a smallholding family. He studied to be a lawyer at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral. In 1983 he was first elected a Chaco provincial deputy, serving for three terms. He was a candidate to be vice-governor in 1987.
- Mauricio Macri
Mauricio Macri (born 8 February 1959) is an Argentine politician. He currently serves as a deputy representing the city of Buenos Aires in the Lower House of Congress, and, since 24 June 2007, is the Head of Government elect of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. He is divorced and has three children. Macri was born in Tandil, in the province of Buenos Aires, and studied at the Catholic University of Argentina (UCA), …
- Roberto Iglesias
Roberto Raúl Iglesias is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician, currently leader of the party and a deputy, formerly governor of Mendoza Province. Iglesias was elected governor of Mendoza in 1999 on behalf of the alliance between the UCR and FrePaSo. He stepped down in 2003, being elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies. In December 2005, Iglesias succeeded Ángel Rozas as President of the national committee of the Radical Civic Union, …
- Oscar Alende
Oscar Eduardo Alende (born 6 July 1909 in Maipú, Buenos Aires province – died 22 December 1996) was an Argentine politician who founded the Intransigent Party. Alende studied medicine at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, where he led the student union, and the University of Buenos Aires. He became head of gastro-intestinal surgery in the Hospital Rawson and a member of the Argentine Surgical Academy.
- Vilma Ibarra
Vilma Lidia Ibarra is an Argentine politician, currently Senator for Buenos Aires. She is the sister of Aníbal Ibarra, the former Chief of the Buenos Aires government. Ibarra was born in Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires Province and moved to the city of Buenos Aires in 1966. She studied at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires where she led the communist youth wing. She graduated in law at the University of Buenos Aires and worked as a lawyer.
- Carlos Álvarez
Carlos Alberto "Chacho" Álvarez is an Argentine politician; he was Vice-President of Argentina during part of President Fernando de la Rúa's mandate, and currently heads the Mercosur Secretariat. Álvarez finished his degree in history at Buenos Aires University. He was an assessor at the Regional Economies Commission of the National Senate from 1983 to 1989. That year he was elected as National Deputy for the Justicialist Party, …
- Ricardo Gómez Diez
Ricardo Gómez Diez is an Argentine politician. He is currently 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. Gómez Diez was born in Salta and studied at the Catholic University of Salta, becoming a lawyer. He became a member of the provincial legislature in 1984 and led the PRS block. In 1991, Gómez Diez became Vice-Governor of Salta Province, …
- Elisa Carrió
Elisa María Avelina Carrió is an Argentine politician, founder of the party initially known as Alternative for a Republic of Equals ("Alternativa para una República de Iguales", ARI), now Support for an Egalitarian Republic ("Afirmación para una República Igualitaria"). Born in the province of Chaco in a traditional family, Carrió was appointed a prosecutor during the last military dictatorship, known as the National Reorganization Process (1976–1983).
- Eduardo Camaño
Eduardo Oscar Camaño is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He was interim president of the country for two days between December 31, 2001 and January 1, 2002. He became interim president because of the resignations of interim President Adolfo Rodríguez Saá and Senate president Ramón Puerta. Camaño is a deputy and has been the leader of the lower house of the Argentine Congress since 2001.
- Arturo Frondizi
Arturo Frondizi Ercoli was the President of Argentina between 1 May 1958 and 29 March 1962 for the Intransigent Radical Civic Union. Frondizi was born in Paso de los Libres, Corrientes Province to immigrants from Umbria, Italy. They lived in Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Rios, and in Buenos Aires. Frondizi graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) with an excellent law degree in 1930 and entered politics.
- Carlos Ruckauf
Carlos Ruckauf is a Peronist politician in Argentina, member of the Justicialist Party. He was Isabel Perón's Minister of Labour before the March 1976 military coup, and signed in this quality the decree 261/75 which ordered the "annihilation of the subversives," preparing the so-called "Dirty War." After the 1983 reestablishment of civilian government, …
- Jorge Obeid
Jorge Alberto Obeid is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, current governor of Santa Fe Province. Obeid was born in Diamante, Entre Ríos but moved to Santa Fe to train as a chemical engineer. He was a young Peronist activist but was forced to leave the country during the military government. He became a member of the legislative council of Santa Fe and, as the President of the Council, became the mayor when the incumbent resigned.
- Mario Das Neves
Mario Das Neves is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He is the governor of the Argentine province of Chubut. Das Neves was born in Avellaneda, Gran Buenos Aires and grew up in Santa Fe but moved to Chubut at the age of 20 to try out as a footballer for Huracán de Trelew, without success. He became active in the youth wing of the Peronists and by 1987 he had a key role in the administration of Trelew's municipality under Néstor Perl.
- Delia Bisutti
Delia Beatriz Bisutti (b. 1947-03-31) is an Argentine centre-left politician, currently a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies representing Buenos Aires. Bisutti was born in Buenos Aires and became a teacher after studying at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. From an early age she took an active role in trade unions, serving as a union delegate from 1970 to 1989.
- Diana Conti
Diana Beatriz Conti (born March 29, 1956 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine lawyer and politician. She is a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and a former national senator. Conti was known in high school for her high grades. On December 16, 1980, she obtained her law degree from the University of Buenos Aires. Having graduated as a lawyer, she continued studying, while working at the same time. From 1981 to 198], she worked at her own law firm, and in 1982, …
- Antonio Cafiero
Antonio Francisco Cafiero (born 12 September 1922 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. Cafiero studied at the University of Buenos Aires and became an accountant in 1944, and a Doctor in Economic Sciences in 1948. He was involved in political activity since he entered the university. As a militant Peronist, since 1962 he held offices in the National Justicialist Movement, …
- Juan Manuel Urtubey
Juan Manuel Urtubey (b. 6 September 1969) is an Argentine politician, a senior figure in the ruling Front for Victory faction of the Justicialist Party (PJ) in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies. Urtubey was born in Salta and was educated at the Institute of Humanities of Salta and the University of Buenos Aires, becoming a lawyer before entering politics shortly after. Urtubey became Secretary of State of Salta Province in 1995, …
- Ramón Puerta
Federico Ramón Puerta is an Argentine politician of the Peronist persuasion. Puerta was born in Apóstoles, Misiones Province. He attended the Universidad Católica Argentina in Buenos Aires and qualified as a civil engineer. However, he entered the family business of the cultivation of yerba maté, and became a successful businessman and millionaire. Puerta was elected a national deputy for Misiones in 1987. In 1991 he was elected Governor of Misiones Province, …
- Agustín Rossi
Agustín Oscar Rossi, also known by his nickname "El Chivo Rossi", is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician from the province of Santa Fe. Since 2005 he is a National Deputy in the Argentine Congress. Rossi was born in Vera, a small city in the north of Santa Fe Province, where he spent his early youth. He moved to Rosario when he was 17 years old, and graduated as a civil engineer at the National University of Rosario.
- Roberto Romero
Roberto Romero (October 22, 1927, Salta - February 1992) was an Argentine Justicialist Party politician and businessman. Romero was a founder of the provincial "El Tribuno" newspaper. He was elected as Governor of Salta Province, serving from 1983-1987, and then stepped down to become a national deputy in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for Salta province. He stood for governor once again in 1991 but lost and retired that year from public life.
- Jorge Busti
Jorge Pedro Busti is an Argentine politician, current Justicialist Party governor of Entre Ríos Province. Busti was born in Concordia, Entre Ríos and graduated as a lawyer at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Busti served as Mayor of Concordia 1983-87 and was first elected governor in 1987. In 1991 he retired as governor and was once again elected Mayor of Concordia. From 1995 to 1999 Busti returned for a second term as governor, …
- Alfredo Palacios
Alfredo Palacios (August 10 1880 - 1965) was a South American socialist politician. Palacios was born in Buenos Aires, and studied law at Universidad de Buenos Aires, after graduation he became a lawyer and taught at the university until becaming a dean. In 1902, he was elected to the Buenos Aires' legislature, and in 1904, to Congress by the district of La Boca, thus becoming the first socialist in the Argentine Congress.
- Delia Parodi
Delia Delfina Degliuomini de Parodi was an Argentine politician who held high rank within the Female Peronist Party. She was a close associate of Eva Perón, the president and founder of the Peronist Women's Party, and led the party after Perón's death in 1952. In 1951 Parodi was elected as a Deputy for Buenos Aires and became one of the first 22 women to serve in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and the first to speak.
- Raúl Alberto Lastiri
Raúl Alberto Lastiri was an Argentine politician who was interim president of Argentina from July 13 1973 until October 12 1973. Lastiri, who presided over the Argentine Chamber of Deputies was promoted to the Presidency of the country after Héctor Cámpora and Vicente Solano Lima resigned. He organized new elections and delivered the country's government to Juan Perón, who won with over 60% of the votes.
- Ramón Mestre
Ramón Bautista Mestre, an Argentine politician, was Governor of Córdoba from July 12, 1995 to July 12, 1999. He also served as Federal Interventor of Corrientes Province (December 16, 1999 to March 20 2001), Minister of the Interior (from March 20, 2001 to December 21, 2001), and Mayor of the city of Córdoba (from December 1983 to December 1991). A disciple of Cordoba 52nd Governor Justo Páez Molina, …
- Marcela Rodríguez
Marcela Virginia Rodríguez is an Argentine politician, a deputy in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for the ARI party. Rodríguez was born in Buenos Aires and studied law at the University of Buenos Aires, gaining her Master of Laws at Yale University. She worked as a researcher and as an advisor to the World Bank, and led the women's department at the municipality of Vicente López Partido in Greater Buenos Aires.
- Felipe Solá
Felipe Solá is an Argentine politician of the Justicialist Party (Peronism) and the current governor of the province of Buenos Aires. Solá is an agricultural engineer. He studied at the University of Buenos Aires. He is married and has two children. He was also a university professor, a journalist, and a counselor and researcher in economics topics.
- Arturo Colombi
Arturo Colombi (b. 1958) is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician, current governor of Corrientes Province. Colombi served as provincial Minister of Public Works in the administration of then-governor, his cousin Ricardo Colombi. He was elected governor of the province in 2005, when Ricardo Colombi resigned to stand for the Argentine Chamber of Deputies; his term expires in 2007.
- Carlos Soria
Carlos Soria is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, currently mayor of General Roca, Río Negro Province. He was the Secretary of Intelligence of the Argentine Republic during parts of 2002. He was appointed to temporarily fill the position by then President Eduardo Duhalde, after the fall of Fernando de la Rúa's government.
- Augusto Alasino
Augusto Alasino is a senior Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He is facing allegations of taking bribes whilst a Senator in a high-profile case. Alasino was born in Maciá, Entre Ríos Province. He graduated as a lawyer and doctor of law from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in Santa Fe. He joined the Peronists in 1983 and held party positions in his province.
- Miguel Ángel Pichetto
Miguel Ángel Pichetto is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He is a Senator for Río Negro Province and leads his party in the Senate. He is a candidate to be governor of Río Negro in the 2007 elections. Pichetto was born in Banfield, Buenos Aires Province and studied at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. In 1976 he qualified as a lawyer and based himself in Río Negro.
- Ramón Saadi
Ramón Eduardo Saadi is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician, currently a senator for Catamarca Province and a former governor of that province. He is a member of the Saadi family that has dominated Catamarca politics, son of Vicente Saadi who first became governor of the province in the 1940s. Saadi studied law at the University of Buenos Aires graduating on 25 April 1977. He was president of the Peronist youth wing of Catamarca.
- Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield
Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield was an Argentine lawyer and politician who wrote the Argentine Civil Code of 1869, the vast majority of which remains in use to this day. Vélez Sarsfield was born in Amboy, a small town in the Calamuchita Valley, province of Córdoba. He studied at the Jesuit college in the provincial capital Córdoba, where he later continued his study of law. He graduated when he was 22; and was particularly adept at mathematics and languages, …
- José Luis Gioja
José Luis Gioja is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, current governor of San Juan Province and former President of the Argentine Senate. In 1976, whilst working for the provincial government, Gioja was detained in a forced disappearance by the military authorities following that year's coup. He was imprisoned for nine months and has claimed that he was tortured by Major Jorge Olivera.