The President of the Honourable Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Nation ( es, Presidente de la Honorable Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina), commonly known simply as the President of the Chamber of Deputies is the presiding officer of the

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of the National Congress of

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, customarily a member of the governing party. The president is an elected member of the Chamber who is chosen by the members of the Senate at the outset of each legislative year, which per governing statutes established in 1996, takes place during the first ten days of December. Three Vice Presidents deputise the President, and they are typically elected from minority blocs in the Chamber. In the country's

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die, resign, or be otherwise incapacitated, after the

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and the Provisional President of the Senate. In all of Argentina's history, only two presidents of the Chamber has ever assumed executive powers in interim fashion:

Raúl Lastiri Raúl Alberto Lastiri (11 September 1915 – 11 December 1978) was an Argentine politician who was interim president of Argentina from July 13, 1973 until October 12, 1973. Lastiri, who presided over the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, was promo ...

in 1973, and

Eduardo Camaño Eduardo Oscar Camaño (born 17 June 1946) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He was in charge of the executive branch in a caretaker capacity, effectively acting as president, for two days between 31 December 2001, and 1 January 200 ...

in 2001.

List of presidents

References

External links

Official website of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies
(in Spanish) {{DEFAULTSORT:Presidents of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies *Lis