Omar Perotti

Omar Perotti
Governor of Santa Fe
In office
11 December 2019 – 11 December 2023
Vice GovernorAlejandra Rodenas
Preceded byMiguel Lifschitz
Succeeded byMaximiliano Pullaro
National Senator
In office
10 December 2015 – 10 December 2019
ConstituencySanta Fe
National Deputy
In office
10 December 2011 – 10 December 2015
ConstituencySanta Fe
Mayor of Rafaela
In office
10 December 2003 – 10 December 2011
Preceded byRicardo M. Pairone
Succeeded byLuis Castellano
In office
10 December 1991 – 10 December 1995
Preceded byJorge Fernández
Succeeded byRicardo M. Peirone
Personal details
Born (1959-09-16) 16 September 1959 (age 65)
Rafaela, Argentina
Political partyJusticialist Party
Other political
affiliations		Front for Victory (2011–2017)
Frente de Todos (2019–present)
Alma materNational University of the Littoral

Omar Ángel Perotti (born 16 September 1959) is an Argentine accountant and Justicialist Party politician. He was Governor of Santa Fe from 2019 to 2023, National Senator from 2015 to 2019, and from 2011 to 2015 he was a National Deputy, always representing the same province. He was also intendente (mayor) of Rafaela from 1991 to 1995 and again from 2003 to 2011.

Early life and education

Perotti was born on 16 September 1959 in Rafaela, in Santa Fe Province.[1] His father, Miguel Ángel Perotti, owned a traditional tambo (milking yard) in the outskirts of Rafaela.[2][3] Perotti studied accounting at the National University of the Littoral and worked as an accountant in Santa Fe City.[1]

Political career

Perotti's first elected post was as intendente (mayor) of his hometown, Rafaela. He was elected in 1991, aged 31.[3] Upon finishing his term in 1995 he was appointed Minister of Agriculture in the cabinet of Governor Jorge Obeid, a post he held until 1999, when he was elected to the Provincial Senate.[1] After a stint as an IDB advisor in Washington 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.[4] During his second term he was subject to criticism for his alignment with the national government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner during the conflict between the government and the agrarian sector.[5] In 2011 he was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in the Front for Victory list, representing Santa Fe Province. In 2015 he ran for the governorship of the province, but landed third in the primary elections, behind the Socialist Party candidate Miguel Lifschitz and the PRO candidate Miguel del Sel.[6] That same year he was elected to the National Senate, also representing Santa Fe, for a six-year term.[7]

As Senator, he became known nationwide for his abstention in the debate for the Legal Pregnancy Interruption bill in 2018.[8][9]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Omar Perotti asume la gobernación de Santa Fe". Grupo La Provincia (in Spanish). 10 December 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Falleció el padre del gobernador Omar Perotti". El Litoral (in Spanish). 18 July 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Quién es Omar Perotti, el peronista que desbancó al socialismo en Santa Fe". La Voz (in Spanish). 16 June 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  4. ^ "Omar Perotti". Fundación KONEX (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  5. ^ "La destrucción política de Omar Perotti". La Política Online (in Spanish). 1 June 2008. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  6. ^ "Perotti admitió que perdió en las elecciones de Santa Fe". La Voz (in Spanish). 20 June 2015. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  7. ^ "En Santa Fe ganaron Omar Perotti y Marcos Cleri". Página/12 (in Spanish). 26 October 2015. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  8. ^ "Omar Perotti se abstendrá y quiere que se trate su proyecto alternativo". Clarín (in Spanish). 8 August 2018. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  9. ^ "Perotti explicó su postura en relación al aborto". El Litoral (in Spanish). 25 June 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
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Political offices
Preceded by
Jorge Fernández
 Mayor of Rafaela
1991–1995 		Succeeded by
Ricardo M. Peirone
Preceded by
Ricardo M. Peirone
 Mayor of Rafaela
2003–2011 		Succeeded by
Luis Castellano
Preceded by Governor of Santa Fe
2019–2023 		Succeeded by