Miguel Ángel Lunghi (born December 6, 1943) is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR)

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and

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Tandil Tandil is the main city of the homonymous partido (department), located in Argentina, in the southeast of Buenos Aires Province, just north-northwest of Tandilia hills. The city was founded in 1823 and its name originates from the ''Piedra Moved ...

, where he was born. At the age of 18 Lunghi joined the UCR political party. He studied pediatrics at the

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and practised pediatrics for 35 years while also acting as Health Director of Tandil city between 1983 and 1987. In 1987 he left the post of Health Director and became a city

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until 1991. As a

he has been the President of Tandil Medics between 1991 and 1998, when he became an auditor of the Italian Society of Tandil. In 2003 Lunghi was elected as Mayor of Tandil. On October 28, 2007 he was re-elected for a period of 4 years.::: Municipio de Tandil :::

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lunghi, Miguel 1943 births Living people People from Tandil Radical Civic Union politicians Mayors of Tandil