Eduardo Alfredo Fellner (born 16 June 1954) is an

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politician. He was President of the

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and governor of

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for two terms.

Life and times

Fellner was born in Río Tercero, Córdoba, and was raised in Villa Palpalá,

, where his father had found work in the Zapla steel mill, the country's oldest and largest. The young Fellner later relocated to Tucumán, where he earned a ''

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'' at the Saint Thomas Aquinas University of the North. He returned to Jujuy in 1983, and was appointed Solicitor General of the province, later becoming

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. The Secretary of Industry, Juan Schiaretti, named Fellner his Minister of Government during President

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's 1993 Federal intervention decree over the governor's post in

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. Fellner returned to Jujuy and was elected to the Provincial Legislature. Serving as President of the body by 1998, he first assumed the governor's post upon the resignation of Governor Carlos Ferraro. Fellner was elected in his own right in 1999, and re-elected in 2003. He became the national leader of the Justicialist Party in 2004, chairing its national council. He resigned the same year, however, amid fallout from a row between Kirchnerists (supporters of then President

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), to whom Fellner was loyal, and provincial party leaders. Fellner attempted to change the provincial constitution ahead of the 2007 election so that he could stand for re-election for a third full term. He later stood for election to the

, and was sworn in during December 2007. Fellner was elected as President of the Chamber, and was only the second chamber president to not be from

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; he was re-elected to the post in 2009. Fellner was nominated as the Front for Victory candidate for Governor of Jujuy in 2011. He was returned to the post by voters with 57% of the total, defeating UCR candidate Mario Fiad by 31%. Fellner's sister, Liliana Fellner, is a

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for Jujuy.

External links

Jujuy Province

Official Website

References

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