The Neuquén People's Movement ( es, Movimiento Popular Neuquino, MPN) is a

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provincial

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Neuquén Neuquén (; arn, Nehuenken) is the capital city of the Argentine province of Neuquén and of the Confluencia Department, located in the east of the province. It occupies a strip of land west of the confluence of the Limay and Neuquén river ...

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. The party was founded by, amongst others,

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Elías Sapag Elías Canaán Sapag (Arabic: إلياس كنعان صباغ) (August 5, 1911 – June 21, 1993) was a Lebanese-born Argentine politician, long-serving senator for Neuquén Province, founder of the Neuquén People's Movement and head of th ...

Felipe Sapag Felipe Sapag (February 14, 1917 – March 14, 2010) was an Argentine politician, governor of Neuquén Province on five occasions and a leading figure in the Neuquén People's Movement and the locally influential Sapag family. Life and times Sa ...

and his brothers,

s who had been discriminated against by the military government. It began on 4 June 1961 and has held the Neuquén governorship and many of the local and national legislative positions since then. At the

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on October 23, 2005, the party won two of the 127 elected national deputies (out of 257). It has one of the three Neuquén senators in the

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–

Horacio Lores Horacio Lores (born 16 July 1939) is an Argentine politician of the Neuquén People's Movement (MPN). He sat in the Argentine Senate representing Neuquén Province from 2007 to 2013. Lores qualified as a doctor in 1964 from the University of B ...

, as well as the governor of Neuquén,

Jorge Sapag Jorge Augusto Sapag (b. July 18, 1951) is an Argentine politician and lawyer, a member of the Neuquino People's Movement (MPN) and governor of Neuquén Province in Argentina since 2007. Born in Zapala, Neuquén Province, Jorge Sapag is a mem ...

, son of Elías Sapag.

Luz Sapag Luz María Sapag (15 June 1944 – 7 July 2010) was an Argentine politician, Mayor of the city of San Martín de los Andes and formerly a Senator representing the Neuquén Province under the aegis of the Neuquino People's Movement. Sapag was ...

, Elías' daughter, is Mayor of

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and a former senator.

Jorge Sobisch Jorge Omar Sobisch (born January 16, 1943) is an Argentine peronist centre-right politician, formerly governor of Neuquén Province. He led the Neuquén People's Movement and was candidate for President of Argentina in 2007. Biography Sobisch w ...

, son of Carlos Sobisch, was a candidate for the presidency of Argentina at the

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, having been a high-profile governor of Neuquén. Sobisch resigned the presidency of the MPN in December 2007. The party has seen internal rivalry between the Sapag and Sobisch families, along a left-right political split.

References

External links

Official website

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