Eduardo Camaño

Eduardo Camaño

Eduardo Óscar Camaño (born June 17, 1946 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) is an Argentine politician and served as President of Argentina from December 31, 2001 to January 2, 2002 for two days on an interim basis .

When Fernando de la Rúa resigned from the office of president on December 21, 2001 after economic and political unrest, the Argentine constitution actually meant that the vice-president should have assumed the office of president. The Vice President Carlos Alvarez had already resigned his office in October 2000 and this post has been vacant since then. The next in line was therefore, according to the constitution, Ramón Puerta , Chairman of the Senate. However, he was overwhelmed with this task from the start and was happy when he was able to hand over the presidential sash to Adolfo Rodríguez Saá on December 23rd .

After just under a week, he could no longer hope for the support of the population and his own party. At a meeting of all Peronist provincial governors that he called on December 30, 2001, only six out of fourteen governors attended. Disappointed, Rodriguez Saá traveled to San Luis and announced his resignation from there.

Since Ramón Puerta, chairman of the Chamber of Senators, had no interest in becoming interim president again, Eduardo Camaño became President of the Chamber of Deputies on December 31st. On the first day of the new year, Eduardo Duhalde was elected as the new president. He became the fifth president of Argentina in just 13 days.

predecessor	Office	successor
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá	President of Argentina 2001–2002	Eduardo Duhalde