Adolfo Rodríguez Saá

Adolfo Rodríguez-Saá
Rodríguez-Saá during the inauguration of Javier Milei, December 2023
National Senator
Assumed office
10 December 2005
ConstituencySan Luis
53rd President of Argentina
Interim
23 December 2001 – 30 December 2001
Vice PresidentNone
Preceded byRamón Puerta (acting)
Succeeded byEduardo Duhalde (interim)
National Deputy
In office
10 December 2003 – 9 December 2005
ConstituencySan Luis
Member of the Constitutional Convention
In office
30 May 1994 – 22 August 1994
ConstituencySan Luis
Governor of San Luis
In office
10 December 1983 – 22 December 2001
Vice GovernorÁngel Rafael Ruiz (1987–1991)
Bernardo Quincio (1991–1995)
Mario Merlo (1995–1999)
Alicia Lemme (1999–2001)
Preceded byHugo di Risio (de facto)
Succeeded byAlicia Lemme
Personal details
Born (1947-07-25) 25 July 1947
San Luis, Argentina
Political partyJusticialist Party
Other political
affiliations
Federal Commitment (2010–2015)
Juntos por el Cambio (2019)[1]
Frente de Todos (2019–present)
SpouseMaría Alicia Mazzarino
Parent(s)Carlos Juan Rodríguez-Saá
Lilia Ester Páez
Alma materUniversity of Buenos Aires
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Adolfo Rodríguez-Saá (Spanish pronunciation: [aˈðolfo roˈðɾiɣes saˈa] ; born 25 July 1947) is an Argentine Peronist politician. Born in a family that was highly influential in the history of the San Luis Province, he became the province's governor in 1983, after the end of the National Reorganization Process military dictatorship. He remained governor up to 2001, being re-elected in successive elections.

President Fernando de la Rúa resigned in that year, amid the December 2001 riots, and the Congress elected Rodríguez Saá as the president of Argentina.[2] In response to the 1998–2002 Argentine great depression, he declared the highest sovereign default in history and resigned days later amid civil unrest.[3]

The Congress elected a new president, Eduardo Duhalde, in order to complete the term of office of de la Rúa (but Duhalde failed to do so, and eventually that term was completed by Néstor Kirchner, instead). Rodríguez Saá ran for President subsequently in the 2003 and 2015 presidential elections, but the low votes he received meant he was not among the serious contenders, receiving 14.11% of the popular vote in 2003 and merely 1.99% in 2015.[4]

  1. ^ Rosemberg, Jaime (18 July 2019). "Rodríguez Saá se reunió con Macri y se suma al oficialismo en el Congreso". La Nación (in Spanish). ISSN 0325-0946. Archived from the original on 14 June 2024. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  2. ^ "Galeria de Presidentes". Casa Rosada – via www.casarosada.gob.ar.
  3. ^ "Rodríguez Saá abandona la presidencia al no lograr el apoyo de los peronistas". El País. 30 December 2001. Archived from the original on 12 May 2019.
  4. ^ "Elecciones PASO 2015 - Resultados Definitivos - Presidente y Vice" (PDF). www.argentina.gob.ar. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 June 2018.