Alfredo Cornejo (born 20 March 1962) is an Argentine politician. As president of its national committee, he leads the Radical Civic Union (UCR). He was

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Mendoza Province Mendoza, officially Province of Mendoza, is a province of Argentina, in the western central part of the country in the Cuyo region. It borders San Juan to the north, La Pampa and Neuquén to the south, San Luis to the east, and the republic o ...

from 2015 to 2019. From 2019 to 2021 he was a National Deputy, and since 2021, he has been a National Senator for Mendoza.

Biography

Alfredo Cornejo studied political sciences at the

National University of Cuyo The National University of Cuyo ( es, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, UNCuyo) is the largest center of higher education in the province of Mendoza, Argentina. As of 2005, the university had 12 academic schools in the city of Mendoza and a delegat ...

. He also worked as a professor at the university.

Political career

During his student years at the National University of Cuyo he was a student leader of the Franja Morada group. He affiliated to the Radical Civic Union in 1983, and was elected as provincial senator for the 2002–2003 period. He was elected national deputy in 2005, and resigned in 2007 to run for mayor of Godoy Cruz. He served as mayor of Godoy Cruz for two terms, 2007–2011 and 2011–2015.

Governor of Mendoza

In 2015 he was elected governor of the Mendoza Province and being one of the referents of

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in the interior of the country. In 2017, he was awarded

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with the Order of Rio Branco in recognition of the promotion of bilateral ties between the two regions. In 2018

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he was awarded the Order of Bernardo O'Higgins in the degree of Grand Officer in recognition of the collaboration in the integration of

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and

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. In the same year, the Konex Foundation awarded him a

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- Diploma of Merit as one of the most important Public Administrators of the last decade in Argentina.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cornejo, Alfredo Governors of Mendoza Province Mayors of places in Argentina Members of the Argentine Senate for Mendoza Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Mendoza Living people People from Mendoza Province 1962 births