- Carlos Menem
Carlos Saúl Menem was President of Argentina from July 8, 1989 to December 10, 1999 for the Justicialist Party (Peronist).
- 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.
- Adolfo Rodríguez Saá
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá Páez Montero is an Argentine Peronist politician. He was the governor of the province of San Luis during several terms, and briefly served as President of Argentina. Rodríguez Saá was born to an important political family in San Luis. His grandfather and namesake Adolfo Rodríguez Saá and his great-uncle were both governors of the province, and his father was the police chief.
- 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, …
- 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.
- Carlos Reutemann
Carlos Alberto Reutemann (born Santa Fe, Argentina April 12, 1942), nicknamed "Lole", is an Argentine former racing driver (who raced in Formula One from through), and later a prominent politician in his native province of Santa Fe, for the Justicialist Party. As a racing driver, Reutemann showed flashes of brilliance alternated with disappointing performances. He earned 12 Grand Prix wins and six pole positions, …
- 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.
- Jorge Capitanich
Jorge Milton Capitanich is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician from Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, Chaco Province, representing that Province in the Argentine Senate. Capitanich (originally probably "Kapitanić") descends from the first Montenegrins who settled in Chaco and created "Colonia La Montenegrina", the biggest Montenegrin colony in South America. He was an academic before entering politics.
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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, …
- 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, …
- Jorge Taiana
Jorge Enrique Taiana is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician, currently Foreign Minister ("canciller") in the government of President Néstor Kirchner. His father was Jorge Alberto Taiana, colleague of and doctor to Juan Perón. Jorge Taiana studied sociology and was awarded a Master's Degree in Social Sciences at the Latin American Social Science Institute (FLACSO).
- Alberto Rodríguez Saá
Alberto José Rodríguez Saá Páez Montero is an Argentine Peronist politician, governor of San Luis Province. Rodríguez Saá was born to an important political family in San Luis. His grandfather Adolfo Rodríguez Saá and his great-uncle were both governors of the province and his father was chief of police. His brother, Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, was governor of San Luis from 1983 until 2001, when he became President of Argentina, resigning after a week.
- Miguel Saiz
Miguel Saiz is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician, current governor of Río Negro Province. Saiz studied at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and became a lawyer. He led the National Register of secured credit and was Vice President of the "Caja Forense de Río Negro" and Presidente of the “Sancor” insurance co-operative. In 1983 he became involved in the UCR and became a councillor in General Roca in 1989.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mario Firmenich
Mario Eduardo Firmenich (b. Buenos Aires, 24 January, 1948) was a founder and active member of the "Montoneros" organization in Argentina before and during the Dirty War of the 1970s. In his youth, Mario Firmenich studied in Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires and participated in the right-wing Catholic Youth Students organization. There he met the Jesuit Carlos Mugica, who would influence him on his conversion to left-wing thinking, …
- Alicia Kirchner
Alicia Margarita Kirchner is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. She is the sister of President Néstor Kirchner and serves in his government as minister of social development. Kirchner worked as a teacher and social worker, holding a PhD in social work. In 1975 and again in 1983 she served as a sub-secretary of social action in her native Santa Cruz Province. From 1987 to 1990 she was a minister in the municipality of Río Gallegos, leading on public health, …
- Juan Carlos Romero
Juan Carlos Romero (b. 16 November 1950) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician, the current governor of Salta Province. Romero was born in Salta where his father Roberto Romero was a politician, later governor of the province. He studied law and political science at the University of Buenos Aires. A lawyer, he became deputy editor then editor of the Salta newspaper founded by his father "El Tribuno" from 1974.
- Governor Of Santa Fe
The governor of the Argentine province of Santa Fe is the highest executive officeholder of the province. According to the provincial constitution (sanctioned in 1962), the governor is elected by the simple majority of the popular vote, along with a vice governor, for a four-year term, and cannot be reelected consecutively. He or she must be a native Argentine citizen or the child of a native citizen, …
- Hilda de Duhalde
Hilda Beatriz 'Chiche' González de Duhalde is a politician in Argentina. She is a Senator for Buenos Aires Province and the wife of former President Eduardo Duhalde. González de Duhalde was born in Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires Province and studied to become a teacher. She has five children with her husband. She assisted her husband in his political career and took on several public positions in family and women's policy.
- Carlos Rovira
Carlos Eduardo Rovira (born 1956-02-18) is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, current governor of Misiones Province at the head of the Front for Renewal. Rovira was born in Posadas and studied chemical engineering at the National University of Misiones, later gaining a postgraduate qualification at the University of Buenos Aires. After a period in academic research, he became an environmental consultant, focusing especially on water quality.
- José Alperovich
José Jorge Alperovich is an Argentine politician, currently the governor of Tucumán Province. Alperovich was a member of the Radical Civic Union until he was approached by the then governor of Tucumán, Julio Miranda, to be provincial economy minister, joining the Justicialist Party in 2001. He became a national senator in 2001 and won as governor in 2003. Alperovich has been the victim of anti-semitism, particularly in political campaigns against him and his policies.
- 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.
- Eduardo Fellner
Eduardo Alfredo Fellner is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, current governor of Jujuy Province. Fellner became governor mid-term when Carlos Ferraro (who had also taken over mid-term just two years before) resigned in an institutional crisis. He was elected in 1999 and 2003 Fellner became the national leader of the Justicialist Party in 2004, chairing its national council.
- Jorge Sobisch
Jorge Omar Sobisch is an Argentine centre-right politician, current governor of Neuquén Province. He leads the Neuquino People's Movement and is a candidate for President of Argentina in 2007. Sobisch was born in Buenos Aires and moved to Neuquén as a young boy with the military family of his father, Carlos Sobisch. He studied in Neuquén and Buenos Aires, then moved to Trelew, Chubut as a young man to work in a friend's design company.
- Sergio Acevedo
Sergio Edgardo Acevedo is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician, formerly a provincial governor and secretary in the national government. Acevedo moved to Pico Truncado in 1958. He became a lawyer and married, having three children. He was elected mayor of Pico Truncando in 1983, serving until 1987 when he became a provincial deputy. In 1991 he returned to be mayor. From 1995 to 1999, Acevedo was a national deputy, …
- 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, …
- 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.
- Vicente Saadi
Vicente Leonidas Saadi was an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He was a senator and governor for Catamarca Province. Born in Belén to Syrian immigrants, he was the patriarch of the Saadi family that has dominated Catamarca politics since the 1940s. Saadi was elected Senator in 1946, serving until 1949 when he was elected governor of Catamarca. However, Juan Perón himself expelled him from the party that year.
- Carlos Sancho
Carlos Alberto Sancho is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician and former governor of Santa Cruz Province. He is a close ally of President of Argentina Néstor Kirchner, who was himself governor of Santa Cruz during several consecutive terms. Sancho ran the family real estate and construction firm. He became a member of the deliberative council of the city of Río Gallegos (the capital of Santa Cruz) in 1999, for the Front for Victory, …
- Carlos Verna
Carlos Alberto Verna is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, current governor of La Pampa Province. Verna became a senator for La Pampa in 1993. Verna won the 2003 election to be governor with the support of Carlos Menem, against the candidate of the Front for Victory faction of the Justicialist Party, Néstor Ahuad.
- Marcelo Guinle
Marcelo Alejandro Horacio Guinle (born 1947-09-28) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician, currently a senator for Chubut Province. Guinle became a lawyer and worked as a legal advisor to petrol firm YPF from 1974 to 1979. He was a judge and sat on the Comodoro Rivadavia circuit as a civil, commercial and labour judge and on the chamber of appeals of both Trelew and Comodoro Rivadavia. In 1986 he became government secretary of the municipality of Comodor Rivadavia.
- 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.
- Gildo Insfrán
Gildo Insfrán is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, current governor of Formosa Province. Insfrán, a veterinarian, became a provincial legislator in 1983. In 1987, he became vice-governor of Formosa under Governor Vicente Joga, serving for two terms. Insfrán replaced Joga and became Governor of Formosa in 1995, with former governor Floro Bogado as his own vice-governor.
- Carlos Sylvestre Begnis
Carlos Sylvestre Begnis was a medical doctor and politician, born in Alto Grande, a village near Bell Ville, Córdoba province in Argentina. He was a rural physician and worked as a surgeon in hospitals of the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe. He entered politics through the Radical Civic Union. In 1958 he was elected governor of Santa Fe, following a period of "de facto" military rule (after the Revolución Libertadora, …
- Arturo Lafalla
Arturo Lafalla (San Rafael, 1944) is an argentinian politician of the Justicialist Party. He was governor of the Mendoza Province in 1995 until 1999. Previously, it had been the minister of the environment in the province. Lafalla was national deputy from 1999 to 2003.