Ernesto Corvalán Nanclares

Ernesto Abelardo Corvalán Nanclares (* 1918 in Mendoza , Mendoza Province ; † May 31, 2006 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine lawyer and politician of the Peronist Partido Justicialista (PJ), who was among other things judge at the Supreme Court between 1973 and 1975 and thereafter of 1975 to 1976 Minister of Justice.

Life

Lawyer and politician in the province of Mendoza

Corvalán Nanclares completed a law degree after attending school and worked as a lawyer after completing his studies and being admitted to the bar . At the beginning of the 1950s, he began his political engagement within the Peronist Partido Justicialista, which he co-founded in the province of Mendoza, and was elected to the Provincial Chamber of Deputies (Cámara de Diputados provincial) in 1951, to which he belonged until 1955. For a time he was President of the Chamber of Deputies.

After the prohibition of the PJ after the coup d'état against President Juan Perón in 1955, he devoted himself to his legal work before, after the lifting of the party ban in January 1961, he and Alberto Serú García founded the neoperonist Partido Tres Banderas (PTB) to help with to run the upcoming provincial elections. In the provincial elections in February 1962, around 20 percent of the vote fell on the PTB, which was just behind the Partido Demócrata and the Unión Cívica Radical del Pueblo (UCRP) of the several times unsuccessful presidential candidate Ricardo Balbín . The PTB's election result suffered, among other things, from the fact that the Partido Blanco (PB) was a second neoperonist party.

In the elections in July 1963 Corvalán Nanclares ran for the office of governor of the province of Mendoza and came with 18.5 percent of the vote in second place after the elected governor Francisco Gabrielli of the Partido Demócrata. In the 1965 elections, the PTB and the PB merged to form the common united Peronist list Movimiento Popular Mendocino and came second after the Partido Demócrata. However, just before the elections for governor, there was a recent split in the party in the candidate selection: While Seru García for the union functionary Augusto Timoteo Vandor entered, Corvalán Nanclares set for the establishment of Peron's wife, Isabel Martínez de Perón , one. After poor results in the elections, the neoperonist Movimiento Popular Mendocino in the province soon dissolved .

Supreme Court Justice and Minister

In the following years he worked again as a lawyer before he became a judge at the Supreme Court (Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación Argentina) after Juan Perón's election victory in September 1973 .

As part of a government reshuffle , President Isabel Martínez de Perón appointed him Minister of Justice (Ministro de Justicia) in her cabinet on June 10, 1975, succeeding Antonio J. Benítez , who in turn became Minister of the Interior. Corvalán Nanclares held the office of Minister of Justice until his replacement by José Deheza on January 14, 1976. During this time, he also took over provisionally as successor to Pedro José Bonanni between August 11 and his replacement by Antonio Cafiero on August 14, 1975 Office of the Minister of Economics (Ministerio de Economía) . He was one of the president's most influential supporters, especially after the departure of the Minister for Social Welfare, José López Rega , from the cabinet on July 11, 1975.

During the military dictatorship that followed between 1976 and 1983 , he largely withdrew from political life and concentrated again on his legal work.

After the end of the military dictatorship, he tried with the Peronists for a nomination for the office of governor of Mendoza, but was defeated by José Carlos Motta, who in turn in the gubernatorial elections in October 1983 against the candidate of the Unión Cívica Radical (UCR), Santiago Llaver , lost.

Publications

• Justicalismo: la Hora de la Verdad , 1984
• Mi bronca y una esperanza , 1993

Web links

• Fallció Corvalán Nanclares . In: Los Andes from June 1, 2006

Individual evidence

1. ^ Argentine Ministries