José Manuel de la Sota

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José Manuel de la Sota (2007)

José Manuel de la Sota (born November 28, 1949 in Córdoba ; † September 15, 2018 ) was an Argentine politician of the Partido Justicialista (PJ). He was governor of the province of Cordoba between 1999 and 2007 and between 2011 and 2015 .

Life

Early political activity

De la Sota studied law at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba . As a young lawyer, he devoted himself particularly to defending political prisoners who were imprisoned for their Peronist ideology when the Peronist Party was banned from 1955 to 1972 . Between 1973 and the 1976 military coup , he was secretary in the mayor's office of Cordoba.

Renewal movement and electoral defeats

After democracy was restored in 1983, De la Sota ran for the office of mayor of Córdoba, but failed against Ramón Bautista Mestre ( UCR ). In 1985 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the National Congress. During this time the PJ split; De la Sota joined the wing of the innovators ( Renovación Peronista ), which cooperated with the Christian Democratic Party and temporarily ousted the traditionalists. In 1987 he ran for the office of governor of Cordoba for this alliance. He narrowly failed against Eduardo Angeloz (UCR).

With the presidential election in 1989 and the takeover of Carlos Menem , who did not belong to any of the wings but was supported by numerous traditionalists, the Peronist renewal movement fell apart when several of its leading members sided with Menem. De la Sota was re-elected to the House of Representatives for the PFY, but from 1990 he accepted the post of ambassador to Brazil. In 1991 he failed again in the election for governor of Cordoba, again against Angeloz. He was nicknamed the Eternal Loser because of the renewed failure in an election and compared himself in a later famous reaction to the defeat with Abraham Lincoln , who had also lost several elections before taking office. Between 1995 and 1999 De la Sota was a senator in the Argentine Congress.

Governor of Cordoba

On December 20, 1998 De la Sota won the gubernatorial elections of Cordoba with almost 50% of the vote, beating Ramón Bautista Mestre (UCR), against whom he had lost out in 1983. His lieutenant governor Germán Kammerath ( UCeDe ) resigned from the post a year later and was elected mayor of the city of Cordoba.

In 2003 he was re-elected as governor of Córdoba with 51.6%. From 2002 onwards, there was an argument with the PFY politician Luis Juez , who had been appointed by him as an anti-corruption lawyer and who accused people in De la Sota's government and his personal circle of corruption. De la Sota then released Juez. He then founded the regional party Partido Nuevo and distinguished himself as mayor of the city of Córdoba, at times the most important opposition leader against the government of the PJ under De la Sota.

For the next gubernatorial election in 2007 De la Sota could not run because of the restriction to two terms in a row. The vice governor from 2003, Juan Schiaretti , won the election narrowly against Luis Juez, who then tried unsuccessfully to challenge the election result. Between 2007 and 2011 De la Sota was again Argentina's ambassador to Brazil.

In 2011 he was re-elected Governor of Cordoba, this time with 42% of the vote. His opponent Juez slipped in favor of the electorate and received 29%.

In August 2015, De la Sota ran as a candidate for the primary elections (PASO) of this year's presidential election for the electoral alliance Una Nueva Alternativa (UNA). However, he failed against his rival Sergio Massa , who achieved a clear majority within the alliance and took third place overall behind Daniel Scioli and Mauricio Macri . In 2015 De la Sota was replaced again by Juan Schiaretti as governor of Córdoba.

He died in a traffic accident on September 15, 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Un aliado de todos los peronismos , La Nación , August 8, 2011
  2. ^ El PJ logró un triunfo resonante en Córdoba , La Nación, December 21, 1998
  3. ↑ De la Sota reelecto , Telediario Digital, August 9, 2003
  4. ↑ El Gobierno sacó de su cargo al fiscal Anticorrupción , La Voz del Interior , October 10, 2002
  5. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: La Justicia ratificó el triunfo de Schiaretti, La Voz del Interior, October 18, 2007 (the virus scanner works both in the original and in the archive link.)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / archivo.lavoz.com.ar
  6. ↑ De la Sota, gobernador por tercera vez , La Voz del Interior , August 8, 2011
  7. ↑ Presidente ( Memento of the original from August 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , official website of the Argentine electoral authority  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.resultados.gob.ar
  8. ↑ Schiaretti, nuevo gobernador de Córdoba , La Voz del Interior, July 6, 2015
  9. ↑ Murió el exgobernador José Manuel De la Sota en un accidente de tránsito , accessed on September 16, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Sota, José Manuel de la
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine politician of the Partido Justicialista (PJ)
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Cordoba
DATE OF DEATH 15th September 2018