Luis Alberto Ammann

Luis Alberto Ammann (* 1942 in Villa Dolores , Province of Cordoba ) is an Argentine writer, journalist and politician. Along with Mario Rodríguez Cobos, known as Silo, he is one of the leading ideologues of the humanist movement and is also the best-known exponent of the Argentine Humanist Party .

Life

Ammann obtained the title of Licentiate in Modern Literature at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba , after which he studied Philology at the Spanish Universidad de La Laguna (in La Laguna , Tenerife ), where he also graduated with the title of Licentiate. Until 1976 he was a lecturer at the Universidad Popular de Bell Ville , a non-university institution similar to a technical college.

As a journalist, Ammann u. a. for the newspaper La Voz del Interior and for Radio Nacional Clásica as an expert on international politics. He was also editor-in-chief of Jerónimo magazine .

His son is the actor Alberto Ammann (* 1978).

Political career

Together with Silo, Ammann is one of the founding members of the Humanist Movement. From 1969 he led a research group on self-liberation that led to the establishment of the Synthesis Institute and the publication of the book Autoliberación .

In 1983, shortly after democratization, the Humanist Movement under Amman's leadership in Argentina carried out a signature campaign aimed at abolishing compulsory military service . Although 1.2 million signatures were collected, the draft was not considered in Congress. This was the trigger for the movement to also become politically active as a party.

In 1984 Ammann then founded the Humanist Party of Argentina and was general secretary of this party until 1994. From 1987, under his leadership, the party formed the alliance Frente Amplio together with the Partido Comunista (a split from the Partido Socialista ) and the Iniciativa Verde (a green party ) de Liberación (FRAL). In 1989 he ran for the office of president, but failed significantly with 0.26%. In the same year he was elected Vice President of the newly founded Humanist International , and he still holds this position today.

In 1994 the Humanist Party of Argentina merged with the Greens to form the Partido Humanista-Verde , as a result, Ammann was replaced as general secretary of the party. Since 2001 he has been a member of the Coordination Council of the Humanist Movement, and at the same time he took up the post of General Secretary of the Partido Humanista party. In 2003 he resigned and devoted himself to his work as head of the commission for further training of the humanist movement.

Ammann achieved his greatest success in elections so far in 2005, when he finished seventh in the parliamentary election as a candidate for Buenos Aires with 1.66%. In October 2007 he ran again for the party alliance FRAL (this time as the abbreviation for Frente por la Unidad Latinoamericana ) for the office of president. During the election campaign, he drew attention primarily through the proposal to introduce common citizenship for all Latin American states - similar to EU citizenship in the EU. In this election too, however, he only had a small share of the vote with around 0.5%.

plant

• Autoliberación (1980) - self-liberation . Edition Pangea, Zurich - Berlin - Vienna, 2018, ISBN 978-3-9524725-6-9 .

Web links

• Ammann website
• Short biography (Spanish) ( MS Word ; 65 kB)

credentials

1. ↑ Declaration by the Humanist Party on its founding  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Official election results of the Argentine presidential election 2007 ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2007 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.