Arturo Colombi (born January 6, 1958) is an

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(UCR) politician, and former governor of

Corrientes Province Corrientes (, ‘currents’ or ‘streams’; gn, Taragui), officially the Province of Corrientes ( es, Provincia de Corrientes; gn, Taragüí Tetãmini) is a province in northeast Argentina, in the Mesopotamia region. It is surrounded by (fr ...

. Born in

Mercedes, Corrientes Mercedes () is a city in the center of the . It is a first-class municipality with a population of 40,667 at the , and the head town of the department of the same name, which also includes the towns of Felipe Yofre and Mariano I. Loza. It is 275&nb ...

, and educated at the

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with a degree in

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, Colombi served as provincial Minister of Public Works in the administration of then-governor, his cousin

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. He was elected governor of the province in 2005, when Ricardo Colombi resigned to stand for a seat in the

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. Colombi was a leading UCR supporter of

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, and led the Frente de Todos (1996 coalition) coalition between the UCR and justicialists in the October 2005 elections, supported by Kirchner. In 2007, he successfully led the Corrientes Province

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supported by presidential candidate

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in elections to congressional seats, but was opposed by his cousin and former ally, Ricardo Colombi. Like his ally, Vice-President

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, Colombi became estranged from the Kirchners during the

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. His bid to for re-election as governor in 2009 was in opposition to both

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and to the UCR, which nominated Ricardo Colombi. Amid both family and political acrimony, the latter won the election in the second round, and Arturo Colombi left office without attending his successor's inaugural.''Corrientes Noticias''

External links

Corrientes Province
(Spanish)
Campaign website
(Spanish)

References

1958 births Living people People from Mercedes, Corrientes Argentine people of Italian descent Radical Civic Union politicians Governors of Corrientes Province Argentine civil engineers National University of the Northeast alumni {{Argentina-politician-stub