Eduardo Brizuela del Moral

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Eduardo Brizuela del Moral
Governor of Catamarca
In office
10 December 2003 – 9 December 2011
LieutenantHernán Colombo
Preceded byOscar Castillo
Succeeded byLucía Corpacci
National Senator
In office
10 December 2001 – 10 December 2003
ConstituencyCatamarca
Mayor of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca
In office
10 December 1991 – 10 December 2001
Preceded byJuan Carlos Fussi
Succeeded byHumberto Rebellato
Personal details
Born
Eduardo Segundo Brizuela del Moral

(1944-08-20)20 August 1944
San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, Argentina
Died25 August 2021(2021-08-25) (aged 77)
San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, Argentina
Political partyRadical Civic Union
Other political
affiliations
Civic and Social Front of Catamarca
ProfessionAgronomist

Eduardo Segundo Brizuela del Moral (20 August 1944 – 25 August 2021) was an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician. He was governor of Catamarca Province from 2003 to 2011, heading the Civic and Social Front of Catamarca.[1]

Life

Eduardo Brizuela was born in

Universidad Nacional de Catamarca
, serving until 1991.

Politics

Brizuela was elected Mayor of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca in 1991. He was re-elected in 1995, and again in 1999. He served as vice-president of the Argentine Federation of Municipalities from 1998 to 2000. In 2001, he was elected to the Argentine Senate representing his home province, serving until the gubernatorial election in 2003.[2]

Eduardo Brizuela became a "K Radical," a UCR supporter of

2008 Argentine government conflict with the agricultural sector
.

Brizuela ran for a third term as governor in the 2011 elections, being defeated by Senator Lucía Corpacci of the Kirchnerist Front for Victory by 83,711 votes over 76,627.[4]

Death

On 25 August 2021, he died at the age of 77 due to bilateral pneumonia and a stroke that had kept him hospitalized for several days in a San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca hospital.[5]

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Preceded by
Governor of Catamarca

2003—2011
Succeeded by