Carlos Alberto Verna (born 8 May 1946) is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician who was

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of La Pampa Province twice, from 2003 to 2007 and from 2015 to 2019. He was also a National Senator for La Pampa for two terms, and served as ''

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'' (mayor) of

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Career

Verna entered public service as Mayor of

, and was elected to the Argentine Senate for La Pampa in 1993, and later became Chairman of the Budget Committee. He won the 2003 gubernatorial election with the support of President Carlos Menem, against the candidate of the

Front for Victory The Front for Victory ( es, Frente para la Victoria, FPV) was a centre-left Peronist electoral alliance in Argentina, and is formally a faction of the Justicialist Party. Former presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner we ...

faction of the Justicialist Party, Néstor Ahuad. Verna was not close to fellow Peronist

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, and was likely to be challenged by his own party if he attempted to be re-elected in 2007. He was, moreover, implicated in the scandal concerning public

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funds diverted to senators by the government of

Fernando de la Rúa Fernando de la Rúa (15 September 19379 July 2019) was an Argentine politician and a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) political party who served as President of Argentina from 10 December 1999 to 21 December 2001. De la Rúa was born in ...

for their support of a labor law flexibilization bill in 2000. Consequently, Verna declared he would not seek political office following the end of his term in 2007, and he left office in December 2007. Verna was returned to his former seat in the Senate in 2009; he campaigned with markedly anti-

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rhetoric in the heavily agrarian province (then still reeling from the effects of the

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, as well as a severe

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). Maintaining long-standing differences with President

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from her days in the Senate, Verna voted against the use of

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reserves for foreign debt retirement. He ran for a new term as governor of La Pampa in 2015. He first defeated the Kirchnerite Fabián Bruna, proposed by the governor

Óscar Jorge Óscar Mario Jorge (born 14 July 1936) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician who was governor of La Pampa Province from 2007 to 2015. Born in Caleufú, La Pampa, Jorge enrolled at the National University of La Pampa, and earned a degree ...

for the primary elections. He announced in September 2018 that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He said that he would not run for reelection in 2019 and leave politics. He also said that he had no intention to stay until the end of his term of office, but that he may resign if his condition gets worse.

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La Pampa Province
, - 1946 births Living people People from La Pampa Province Mayors of places in Argentina Governors of La Pampa Province Justicialist Party politicians Members of the Argentine Senate for La Pampa {{Argentina-politician-stub