Omar Ángel Perotti (born 16 September 1959) is an

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accountant and

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politician who has been

Governor of Santa Fe The Governor of Santa Fe ( es, Gobernador de la Provincia de Santa Fe) is a citizen of Santa Fe Province, in Argentina, holding the office of governor for the corresponding period. Currently the governor of Santa Fe is Omar Perotti, of the Justicia ...

since 2019. From 2015 to 2019 he was a National Senator, and from 2011 to 2015 he was a National Deputy, always representing the same province. He was also ''

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'' (mayor) of

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from 1991 to 1995 and again from 2003 to 2011.

Early life and education

Perotti was born on 16 September 1959 in

, in

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. His father, Miguel Ángel Perotti, owned a traditional ''tambo'' (milking yard) in the outskirts of Rafaela. Perotti studied accounting at the

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and worked as an accountant in Santa Fe City.

Political career

Perotti's first elected post was as ''

'' (mayor) of his hometown,

. He was elected in 1991, aged 31. Upon finishing his term in 1995 he was appointed Minister of Agriculture in the cabinet of Governor

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, a post he held until 1999, when he was elected to the Provincial Senate. After a stint as an IDB advisor in

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in 2002, Perotti returned to Rafaela to run for a second term in the mayoralty in 2003 and was elected. He was reelected in 2007. During his second term he was subject to criticism for his alignment with the national government of

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during the conflict between the government and the agrarian sector. In 2011 he was elected to the

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in the

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list, representing Santa Fe Province. In 2015 he ran for the governorship of the province, but landed third in the primary elections, behind the

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candidate

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and the

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. That same year he was elected to the

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, also representing Santa Fe, for a six-year term. As Senator, he became known nationwide for his abstention in the debate for the Legal Pregnancy Interruption bill in 2018.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Perotti, Omar 1959 births Living people People from Rafaela Members of the Argentine Senate for Santa Fe Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Santa Fe Justicialist Party politicians Governors of Santa Fe Province Mayors of places in Argentina