Roberto Miguel Lifschitz (13 September 1955 – 9 May 2021) was an Argentine politician and civil engineer of the Socialist Party who was

Governor of Santa Fe Province The Governor of Santa Fe () is a citizen of Santa Fe Province, in Argentina, holding the office of governor for the corresponding period. Currently the governor of Santa Fe is Maximiliano Pullaro, of the Justicialist Party. According to the provin ...

from 2015 to 2019. Prior to that, he was '' intendente'' (mayor) of

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, the largest city in the province and the third largest in Argentina, from 2003 to 2011. He also served as Provincial Senator of Santa Fe from 2011 to 2015. He last served as President of the Chamber of Deputies of Santa Fe, a position he held from 2019 until his death in 2021.

Career

Lifschitz earned his degree at the Engineering Faculty of the National University of Rosario in 1979, and worked in the private sector until 1989, when he became Director-General of the Public Housing Service (''Director General del Servicio Público de la Vivienda'') of the city of Rosario, under the

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administration of Héctor Cavallero. He continued working in various public offices, as Municipal Secretary-General (''Secretario General de la Municipalidad''), Public Services' Secretary (''Secretario de Servicios Públicos'') and General Cabinet Coordinator for the Municipality of Rosario (''Coordinador General de Gabinete de la Municipalidad de Rosario''), between June and December 2003, under the administration of Hermes Binner. Lifschitz ran for Mayor of Rosario and was elected in the provincial elections of 7 September 2003 for the period 2003–2007. In 2006 he began acknowledging he could run for re-election. In March 2007, a survey showed that Lifschitz would win by a wide margin over any of the other major prospective candidates (52.9% of the total votes). Lifschitz competed in the primaries of the Progressive, Civic and Social Front, on 1 July 2007, against Carlos Comi (of ARI); he obtained around 90% of the vote. In the main election of 2 September 2007, he won his re-election for the period 2007–2011 by a landslide (57–31%) over his closest competitor, former Socialist mayor Héctor Cavallero (who ran for the

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-led Front for Victory). In the elections of 14 June 2015, he was elected as the new governor of the Province of Santa Fe, a position he assumed on 10 December 2015. After leaving the governor's office he would be elected as a deputy in the provincial legislative elections of June 2019. The victory of the Progressive, Civic and Social Front in these elections caused him to be designated as the new President of the Chamber of Deputies of Santa Fe. Lifschitz would hold this position from 11 December 2019 until his death on 9 May 2021.

Death

In late April 2021, Lifschitz was admitted to hospital after testing positive for

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. His condition worsened by 25 April and he was transferred to

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and placed on a respirator and was in a coma. He died on 9 May.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lifschitz, Miguel 1955 births 2021 deaths Argentine civil engineers Argentine people of German-Jewish descent Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina Governors of Santa Fe Province Jewish Argentine politicians Jewish mayors Mayors of Rosario, Santa Fe National University of Rosario alumni Politicians from Rosario, Santa Fe Socialist Party (Argentina) politicians