Jorge Domínguez (politician)
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Jorge Manuel Rogelio Domínguez (20 March 1945 – 24 August 2022) was an Argentine politician of the
Justicialist Party The Justicialist Party ( es, Partido Justicialista, ; abbr. PJ) is a major political party in Argentina, and the largest branch within Peronism. Current president Alberto Fernández belongs to the Justicialist Party (and has, since 2021, served ...
. He was appointed mayor of
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in 1994. The
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changed the status of the city, turning the mayor into an elected office. He ran for the mayoral elections in 1996, and lost to the radical
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. He then served as minister of defense for president
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to the end of his term of office in 1999.


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