Pablo Verani

Infobox Governor | name= Pablo Verani
nationality=Argentine


office= Argentine Senator
from Río Negro Province
party= Radical Civic Union
term_start= 10 December 2007
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office2= Governor of Río Negro
term_start2= 9 December 1995
term_end2= 10 December 2003
preceded2= Horacio Massacesi
succeeded2= Miguel Saiz
lieutenant2= Bautista Mendioroz [ [http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/ultimas/20-85222-2007-05-19.html Mañana hay elecciones a gobernador en Río Negro] , "Página/12", 19 May 2007.]
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Pablo Federico Verani (b. 1938) is an Argentine politician, formerly of the Radical Civic Union (UCR). He sits in the Argentine Senate representing Río Negro Province, sitting in the block of the Plural Consensus in support of the ruling Front for Victory. He is a former governor of the province.

Verani was elected Mayor of General Roca 1985-89 then served as vice-governor. He was elected governor of Río Negro in 1995 and was re-elected in 1999. After stepping down in 2003, Verani then served as provincial minister for planning and development.

Verani was President of the provincial Radicals. Like his successor as governor, Miguel Saiz, Verani is a leading figure in the ranks of those Radicals who support the ruling Front for Victory of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Néstor Kirchner, the so-called "Radicales K". Following a struggle to wrest control of the provincial party, Verani and Saiz were expelled from the Radicals in December 2007.

In 2007 Verani was elected as the third Senator for his province, heading the list of the Alliance Consensus for Development. He chairs the Committee of Science and Technology.

External links

* [http://www.senado.gov.ar/web/senadores/biografia.php?id_sena=386 Senate profile]

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