Hermes Binner

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Hermes Binner, 2017

Hermes Juan Binner (born June 5, 1943 in Rafaela ; † June 26, 2020 ) was an Argentine politician and president of the Socialist Party . Between 2007 and 2011 he was the governor of Santa Fe Province . His ancestors had emigrated from the Valais village of Bürchen .

Career

Binner graduated from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario with a degree in medicine in 1970 and then worked as a doctor in Rosario . He was already politically active as a schoolboy, and when he was 18 he joined the Socialist Party. In 1972, during the final phase of the military dictatorship Revolución Argentina , he took an active part in the re-establishment of the Partido Socialista under the name Partido Socialista Popular .

In 1993 he was elected to the Rosario City Council. After a failed election as lieutenant governor of the province of Santa Fe, he was elected mayor of Rosario in 1995. During his tenure, he decentralized the city's institutions and improved the health infrastructure. He managed to win re-election in 1999.

In 2003 he ran for the office of governor of the province, but narrowly failed against the Peronist Jorge Obeid , although he was able to unite the most votes. The reason was a peculiarity of the electoral law in the province ( Ley de Lemas ), which allowed several candidates per party and added up the votes of the result, which is why the socialists as a whole were subject to the PJ . In 2005 he was elected MP for his home province.

In the 2007 election, which changed the franchise, he was finally elected governor of Santa Fe with 48.6% of the vote. This was the first time a socialist had achieved such high office in Argentina.

In 2011 he ran for the presidential elections as a candidate for the electoral alliance Frente Amplio Progresista , which, in addition to the Partido Socialista, included the regional party GEN from the province of Buenos Aires , the Partido Nuevo from the province of Cordoba and other small left parties. He reached second place with 16.81%, well behind the winner Cristina Fernández de Kirchner , who received the absolute majority of the votes.

Political positions

Binner was considered a moderate socialist or social democrat. In his youth he was influenced in his thinking by Leninist authors, but he professed a market economy .

literature

  • Daniel Attala: Hermes Binner. Primer gobernador socialista de la Argentina. Diálogos. Losada, Buenos Aires 2011, ISBN 978-950-03-9848-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Binner asumió la Presidencia del Partido Socialista y tiempo para Pidio futuras alianzas ( Memento of 19 May 2012 at the Internet Archive ), Telam 17 May, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b c Binner, la pesadilla socialista del PJ santafesino , Página / 12 , September 3, 2007
  3. ↑ Elecciones 2011: la Cámara Electoral dio a conocer el escrutinio definitivo , Centro de Información Judicial, November 3, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Binner, Hermes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Binner, Hermes Juan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine medic and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Rafaela
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 2020