Ángel Rozas

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name= Ángel Rozas
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office= Governor of Chaco
term_start= 1995
term_end=2003
lieutenant= Roy Nikisch
predecessor= Rolando Tauguinas
successor= Roy Nikisch
birth_date= 22 March 1950
birth_place= General Pinedo
profession= Lawyer
party= Radical Civic Union
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Ángel Rozas (born 22 March 1950) is an Argentine politician. He is a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) and has been de facto leader of that party.

Rozas was born in General Pinedo, Chaco Province to a smallholding family. He studied to be a lawyer at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral. In 1983 he was first elected a Chaco provincial deputy, serving for three terms. He was a candidate to be vice-governor in 1987.

Rozas served as governor of Chaco Province from December 1995 to December 2003, re-elected in 1999. In 1999 he was also elected vice-president of the national committee of the UCR and in 2001 was elected president, serving until 2005 when he was replaced by Roberto Iglesias.He was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for Chaco in 2005. As a leading figure in his party, he was seen as a possible candidate for the 2007 presidential elections, although the UCR was (and continues to be) electorally weak and split between supporters of President Néstor Kirchner and Roberto Lavagna. Eventually Rozas ran to be Governor of Chaco once again, in support of the presidential campaign of Lavagna. He lost to Jorge Capitanich by just 0.8% of the vote.

From June 2005 Rozas has headed the Leandro N. Alem Foundation. He is married with two daughters. His son died in 1990.

External links

* [http://angelrozas.radicales.org.ar/ Campaign site]