Mario Raúl Negri (born 6 February 1954) is an
Argentine Radical Civic Union politician and lawyer. He is currently a
National Deputy for
Córdoba Province and the leader of the
Juntos por el Cambio
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parliamentary group
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in the Chamber. In addition, he was a member of the
Council of Magistracy appointed by the Chamber of Deputies from 2017 to 2018.
Negri has previously served as
vice governor
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and provincial legislator of Córdoba.
Early life and education
Mario Negri was born and lived all along his childhood in
Lucas González, department of
Nogoyá in
Entre Ríos province. He is the third of six siblings. His father, Noé Santiago Negri, worked in the oil industry and his mother Elisabeth Sobrón was a teacher.
In 1973 he moved to the City of
Córdoba to study
Law
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s the
National University of Córdoba
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(UNC). He had graduated in 1979. During this period he started to be active in
Franja Morada, the university leg of the
Radical Civic Union (UCR). He was de President of the Student's Union and was a member of the national council of Franja Morada. He was also a member of the Renovation and Change Movement in
Córdoba Province, an internal group of the Radical Party founded by former Argentine President
Raúl Alfonsín
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in 1972.
Political career
Within the UCR he occupied many positions. He was the President of the Radical Youth (the youth association of the Radical Civic Union) in Córdoba Province (1983–1985), Vice President of the Provincial Committee of the UCR (1987–1989) and during the 1990s he was the secretary of the executive board of the National UCR and member of the National Committee of the party. Between 2006 and 2009 he became the President of the Party in Córdoba. He also was the secretary of coordination of the National Committee until December 2012.
After the restoration of democracy in
Argentina
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Mario Negri he performed as Provincial Deputy (1983–1987). During that period he led the Commission of Constitutional Affairs at the Legislature of Córdoba Province. He was the
Lieutenant governor of Córdoba Province between 1987 and 1991 during the second mandate of
Eduardo César Angeloz (1983–1995). In 1989 he became acting Governor of the Province while Angeloz was promoting his
presidential campaign
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. Additionally, in 1991 he was a potential candidate to be the mayor of Córdoba City and in 1999 he was indeed the candidate in representation of the UCR. In 2007 he was one of the candidates to rule the province.
Mario Negri is now National Deputy of Argentina and since December 2013 has been the leader of the UCR deputies at the
Chamber of Deputies. He has also led the deputies of
Cambiemos
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coalition since 2016.
It is his fifth term as Deputy.
The first one was between 1993 and 1997 and he was reelected until 2001. Then, he was chosen again for the periods 2003–2007 and 2011–2015. Between 2011 and 2013 he was the Second Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies, while between 1999 and 2001 was the General Secretary of the Congressmen of the UCR.
Parliamentary labour
During his different periods as National Deputy, que proposed several bills such as the increase of the Fund of Teachers Encouragement to national universities, the regime of invalidity or nullity of the proceedings made under the breach of the constitutional guarantees,
[N° Expediente 4609-D-99, HCDN, ''Directorio Legislativo. Quiénes son nuestros legisladores y cómo nos representan 2000-2001'', Fundación Karakachoff y Università di Bologna, Buenos Aires, 2000] the creation of the Federal Council of
Mercosur
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,
the recovery and restoration of the building of Hospital de Clínicas in the city of Córdoba that was declared Historic National Heritage, the regime of the incorporation of international norms to Argentine legal system, a system to reference fiduciary funds with funds of the State to de National Budget,
[N° Expediente 5845-D-05, HCDN, ''Directorio Legislativo. Quiénes son nuestros legisladores y cómo nos representan 2006-2007'', María Baron, edición de autor, Buenos Aires, 2006. ] the derogation of the articles 127 and 133 of the Electoral Code which regulates sanctions to civil servants during national elections,
the creation of a Permanent Bicameral Commission to control the policies around the recovery of the national sovereignty of
Malvinas Islands, the amendment to the Criminal Code about the stoppage of the trial in case of gender violence, the derogation of Law 26.843 that gave approval to the
Memorandum of understanding between Argentina and Iran
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about the
AMIA bombing
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, changes in the National Program of Witnesses and Suspects Protection, and a new regime of
antitrust legislation,
among others.
As head of deputies of the
Cambiemos
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coalition, he was part of the delegation that took part of the 2018 edition of the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) forum in
Paris
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, where France's President
Emmanuel Macron was one of the speakers.
At OECD he had met Secretary General
José Ángel Gurría to ask for Argentina's admission to that organization.
Captured by state terrorism
As an active member of Franja Morada, Negri was illegally captured by para-policial forces a couple of months before the
coup d'état
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of 24 March 1976. The detention happened at midnight on 3 December 1975 when the forces broke into the apartment that he had rented with his brothers at the Maipú neighbourhood on the South East of Córdoba City. They forced him to get in a vehicle of the Army, his eyes covered and took him to the Boureau Department of the Police.
[Beltrán, Mónica, ''La franja. De la experiencia universitaria al desafío del poder'', 2013, Aguilar, Buenos Aires, p. 169. ]
Chopper accident
In the dawn of 11 December 1988, Mario Negri, as
Lieutenant governor of Córdoba province, was returning to the Capital in an Agusta chopper from the city of Hernando, located at 150 kilometres from Córdoba City. He had taken part of the National Peanut Party.
According to witnesses, once the chopper had reached 500 m of height, it fell down in the meadows. The cause of the accident was the strong wind. Allegedly, the engines of the helicopter got stuck and the pilot was unable to avoid the fall.
Negri was traveling with his private assistant Pascual Scarpino, the News manager of
Televisión Pública Argentina Jorge Neder, the pilot Máximo Rodríguez and the copilot Héctor Alberto Tessio. Scarpino, Rodríguez and Tessio died, while Negri suffered several injuries and 39 fractures, which forced him to remain in hospital for some months while being operated on a number of occasions. Neder was harmless.
Awards and recognitions
Mario Negri was chosen by ''El Parlamentario'' magazine as the most distinguished deputy of 2015 and 2017. He was chosen by other deputies, senators, journalists and consultants of the Congress.
In 2014 the same magazine distinguished Negri as the deputy who spoke the most at the Chamber.
External links
Official website
References
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Living people
People from Entre Ríos Province
People from Córdoba Province, Argentina
1954 births
National University of Córdoba alumni
Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Córdoba
Members of the Argentine Council of Magistracy
Vice Governors of Córdoba Province, Argentina
Radical Civic Union politicians