Eduardo Fellner
Eduardo Fellner | |
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Alberto Balestrini | |
Succeeded by | Julián Domínguez |
National Deputy | |
In office 10 December 2007 – 10 December 2011 | |
Constituency | Jujuy |
President of the Justicialist Party | |
In office 9 May 2014 – 3 May 2016 | |
Preceded by | Daniel Scioli |
Succeeded by | José Luis Gioja |
Personal details | |
Born | Río Tercero, Córdoba Province, Argentina | 16 June 1954
Political party | Justicialist Party |
Profession | Lawyer |
Eduardo Alfredo Fellner (born 16 June 1954) is an Argentine Peronist politician. He was President of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and governor of Jujuy Province for two terms.
Life and times
Fellner was born in
The Secretary of Industry, Juan Schiaretti, named Fellner his Minister of Government during President Carlos Menem's 1993 Federal intervention decree over the governor's post in Santiago del Estero Province. Fellner returned to Jujuy and was elected to the Provincial Legislature. Serving as President of the body by 1998, he first assumed the governor's post upon the resignation of Governor Carlos Ferraro.[1]
Fellner was elected in his own right in 1999, and re-elected in 2003. He became the national leader of the Justicialist Party in 2004, chairing its national council. He resigned the same year, however, amid fallout from a row between Kirchnerists (supporters of then President Néstor Kirchner), to whom Fellner was loyal, and provincial party leaders.
Fellner attempted to change the provincial constitution ahead of the
Fellner was nominated as the Front for Victory candidate for Governor of Jujuy in 2011. He was returned to the post by voters with 57% of the total, defeating UCR candidate Mario Fiad by 31%.[3]
Fellner's sister, Liliana Fellner, is a Senator for Jujuy.
External links
- (in Spanish) Jujuy Province
- (in Spanish) Official Website[permanent dead link]
References
- ^ a b "Biografías de Gobernadores: Dr. Eduardo Fellner". Tribunal Electoral de la Provincia de Jujuy.
- ^ La Nación (in Spanish)
- ^ "Gobernador de Jujuy (2011)". Atlas Electoral de Andy Tow. Archived from the original on 2012-04-26.