Alberto Reinaldo Pierri (born 1948) is an

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businessman and former politician of the

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. Pierri is the owner and managing director of Telecentro, one of Argentina's largest communications company. He served as a member of the National Chamber of Deputies elected in

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during 16 years, and presided the Chamber from 1989 to 1999 – being the longest-serving president of the Chamber of Deputies since the restoration of Argentine democracy in 1983. His tenure as president of the Chamber of Deputies was marred by a number of controversies, such as the infamous "diputrucho" incident, where a man who was not an elected member of Congress voted in place of an absent deputy. He was the sponsor of the bill that mandated the creation of the

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in 1989. In 2003, he unsuccessfully ran for

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as part of the Front for Loyalty, the electoral coalition backing

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in that year's presidential election.

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