Sergio Daniel Urribarri (born 7 October 1958) is an

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(PJ) politician and former governor of

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. Since 2020 he has been Argentina's ambassador to

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. In April 2022 he resigned from office after being sentenced to eight years and a perpetual ban from public office for the crimes of negotiations incompatible with public service and embezzlement.

Biography

Born in the village of Arroyo Barú, Entre Ríos, to Antonia Martínez, a schoolteacher, and Arturo Urribarri, a railway engineer. Urribarri grew up and attended school in Colón, before moving to

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, where at the age of 20 he became Director of the public library. He was a successful footballer for the town's club, and in 1985 he was elected Mayor of General Campos. He and his wife Analía married in 1981 and have five sons; one of them, Bruno Urribarri, became a football defender for

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. Urribarri had a lengthy tenure as director of the Concordia Football League and was elected provincial deputy on three occasions, sitting in the provincial legislature between 1991 and 2003. He served as head of CAFESG, the governing body of the hydroelectric plant at the Salto Grande Dam from 2003, and then as minister of government, justice, education and public works under Governor

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, from 2004. Urribarri was elected Governor on the

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slate in March 2007. He and Busti were on opposite sides of the

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over higher export tariffs proposed by President

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(whom Urribarri supported). He bested the UCR candidate, Gustavo Cusinato, with 47% of the vote to Cusinato's 20%. He was re-elected in 2011 with 56% of the vote, defeating Atilio Benedetti of the UCR-led Progressive Civic Front Alliance as well as Busti, who ran on a Federal Peronist ticket. Following the president's decision in March 2012 to partly

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the nation's leading energy firm, YPF, Urribarri suggested as a potential adviser or director

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oil engineer and executive

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; the Entre Ríos native was appointed CEO of YPF upon the firm's renationalization on May 5. In 2019 the Argentine government touted him to be the country's ambassador in the State of Israel. On 7 January 2020 his credentials were accepted by the Israeli government.

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Entre Ríos Province
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