Ramón Eduardo Saadi (6 February 1949 – 8 February 2023) was an Argentine senator and governor for Catamarca Province and a member of the Argentine Justicialist Party. He was a member of the Saadi family that has dominated Catamarca politics since the 1940s and a son of

Vicente Saadi Vicente Leonidas Saadi (1913 – 10 July 1988) was an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He was a senator and governor for Catamarca Province, and became the patriarch of a family that has dominated Catamarca politics since the 1940 ...

who first became governor of the province in 1949. Born in

San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca () is the capital and largest city in Catamarca Province in northwestern Argentina, on the Río Valle River, at the feet of the Cerro Ambato. The city name is normally shortened as Catamarca. The city of , ...

to a father of Syrian descent, Saadi studied law at the

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, graduating in 1977. He was president of the Peronist youth wing of Catamarca, and in 1982 was named editor of the newspaper ''La Voz''. Saadi was elected governor of Catamarca in 1983. In 1987, after his term expired, he was elected Senator and was succeeded as governor by his own father,

. The elder Saadi died in 1988, however, and Ramón Saadi returned to Catamarca to be elected governor once again. The 1990 murder of María Soledad Morales by two youths whose fathers were linked to Governor Saadi led to a national outcry, and ultimately to the governor's removal by federal intervention on 28 April 1991. Saadi was, despite the controversy, elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies that September, and was twice re-elected, serving until 2003. He was returned to the Senate that year, as part of the

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caucus of

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, although having been previously an ally of Carlos Menem. His term expired on 10 December 2009. Saadi died on 9 February 2023, at the age of 74.

External links

Senate profile

References

1949 births 2023 deaths People from Catamarca Province University of Buenos Aires alumni Argentine people of Lebanese descent Argentine people of Syrian descent Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Catamarca Members of the Argentine Senate for Catamarca Governors of Catamarca Province Justicialist Party politicians {{Argentina-politician-stub