Claudio Javier Poggi (born 7 October 1963) is an Argentine accountant and

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politician. From 2017 to 2021, he sat in the

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representing

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, the

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he led as

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from 2011 to 2015. He currently serves as a National Deputy since 2019, and previously held the same office from 2003 to 2009.

Life and times

Poggi was born in Alcira Gigena, a rural community near

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. He enrolled at the

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, earning a degree in Accountancy. He married Sandra Correa, and they had two children. They relocated to neighboring

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, and in 1991 Poggi entered public service as Representative for San Luis at the Federal Investment Council (CFI). He then served in a managerial capacity at the local Acindar steel mill. Governor

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appointed him Undersecretary of the Economy in 1995, and in 1999, Minister of Economy and Public Works. He served as Undersecretary of Interministerial Coordination during Adolfo Rodríguez Saá's brief turn as interim President appointed on an emergency basis by Congress in December 2001. Poggi returned to San Luis as Minister of Economy and Public Works for Governor

Alicia Lemme María Alicia Lemme (born 1954) is an Argentine Peronist politician. She became Vice Governor of San Luis Province in 1999, deputising for Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, and became Governor of San Luis upon Rodríguez Saá's resignation in 2001. Notably, ...

, and in 2003 was elected to the

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. He concomitantly served as Minister of Public Works and Tourism for Lemme's successor, Governor

Alberto Rodríguez Saá Alberto José Rodriguez Saá (born August 21, 1949) is an Argentine lawyer and politician. He is the Governor of San Luis Province. He was presidential candidate for the center-right peronism, Federal Peronism, in 2007 and 2011. The Rodriguez S ...

. Poggi was elected to the San Luis Provincial Legislature in 2009, serving as the chamber's president until July 2010, when he accepted an appointment as Head of the Cabinet of Ministers in Rodríguez Saá's administration. He was endorsed by the governor to run as his successor in 2011 on the

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ticket, a center-right faction of the

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whose strength in greatest in San Luis. He was thus elected governor, winning nearly 58% of the vote and defeating the runner-up,

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 w ...

candidate Alfonso Vergés, by 32%. His victory represented the eighth consecutive election won by a Rodríguez Saá or close ally since democracy was restored in Argentina in 1983; Poggi stressed his wish to maintain continuity in the province, one of Argentina's fastest growing, citing the Rodríguez Saá administrations as "models to follow".

External links

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Province of San Luis
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Office of the Governor of San Luis

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Poggi, Claudio 1963 births Living people People from Córdoba Province, Argentina Argentine people of Italian descent Argentine accountants Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in San Luis Members of the Argentine Senate for San Luis Governors of San Luis Province Justicialist Party politicians