2023-09-25 01:20:00
The head of radicalism, Alfredo Cornejo, won the Mendoza election and will once once more be governor of the provincea position he already held between 2015 and 2019, following an election that placed him 10 points above his main opponent, Omar De Marchi.
He was mayor of Godoy Cruz, president of the Radical Civic Union of the province of Mendoza from 2011 to 2013 and it is not the first time that he has been elected governor: In 2015 he won with a historic percentage and held office until 2019.
“Once the provincial government has been elected, we want to ask the people of Mendoza, but also the Argentines, that we make a safe change, a sustained change in Argentina, so that we are not in ups and downs, with the danger of returning to populism in very short time,” said Cornejo following obtaining, with 60% counted, almost 40% of the votes once morest De Marchi’s 30%.
Who is Alfredo Cornejo
Born on March 20, 1962 in the Mendoza district of Eugenio BustosCornejo obtained a degree in Political Science and Public Administration from the National University of Cuyo (UNCUYO).
During his student years at the National University of Cuyo he was a student leader of the Franja Morada group.. Cornejo later worked as a professor at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the National University of Cuyo, in the “Comparative Political Regimes” and “Public Policy Analysis” classes before entering political life.
His political career began in 1999 when he became Secretary of Government for the mayor of Godoy Cruz, César Biffi. In 2002 he was elected provincial senator for the third district, a position he held until December 2003. After Julio Cobos’ victory in the gubernatorial elections, Cornejo served as Government Minister. In February 2005, the Justice and Security portfolio of Mendoza was added to his position.
In October 2005, he headed the list for National Deputies of the Radical Civic Union of Mendoza., an election that results in his entry, together with Accountant Silvia Lemos, to the Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Nation. Replaced by lawyer Jorge Albarracín, in 2007 he resigned from his deputy seat to run as a candidate for mayor of Godoy Cruz, a position he won in the October 2007 elections.
In the October 2011 elections, he was re-elected as mayor of Godoy Cruz, with 54% of the votes., and the same year he was proclaimed president of the Radical Civic Union of Mendoza, replacing José Corral. Four years later, Cornejo won the election for governor of Mendoza for the Cambia Mendoza Front, along with Laura Montero as vice governor, following an election in which he obtained more than 45% of the votes once morest the Kirchner candidate Adolfo Bermejo.
During the period 2019-2021 Cornejo returned to the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation, where he served as 3rd Vice President of the chamber and President of the Tourism Commission. He currently serves as a national senator for the period 2021-2027 and is the President of the Interblock Together for Change. Since then, he expressed his desire to compete in the 2023 presidential elections, but clarified that the UCR had to do so within Together for Change (then called Cambiemos).
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