José Carlos Martínez

Infobox Governor | name= José Martínez
nationality=Argentine


office= Argentine Senator
from Tierra del Fuego Province
party= ARI
term_start= 10 December 2007
term_end=
preceded=
succeeded=
date of birth=birth date and age|1962|11|29
place of birth= Córdoba
dead=alive
date of death=
place of death=
spouse= Verónica Alejandra Lilia Scardino [http://www.legistdf.com.ar/martinez.php Profile] , ARI legislative block, Tierra del Fuego. Accessed 8 June 2008.]
religion=
profession= Medical technician
website=

José Carlos Martínez (b. 29 November 1962, Córdoba) is an Argentine ARI politician. He sits in the Argentine Senate representing Tierra del Fuego Province.

Martínez graduated from the National Technical University and gained a masters at the University of Alcalá, Spain in 1988 and again in 2002. From 1981 until 1985 he worked in the San Roque Hospital in Córdoba. He moved to Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego in 1985, working from the following year in the Río Grande regional hospital. He was elected to be Director of the Provincial Institute of Social Prevision from 1995 until 2001. He then served as Director of the social security organisation IPAUSS. He has been active in the trade unions Argentine Workers' Center (CTA) and the Association of State Workers.

In 2003, Martínez was elected to the provincial legislature, serving until 2007. He was elected to the Senate in 2007.

As part of building a broader coalition ahead of the 2007 elections, ARI's leader Elisa Carrió, reached out to centrist figures such as Patricia Bullrich and María Eugenia Estenssoro. This proved controversial in ARI ranks and several national legislators formed a separate block called the Autonomous ARI in Congress. In May 2008, the block, led by Eduardo Macaluse, announced that they were forming a new party, Solidarity and Equality ("Solidaridad e Igualdad Sí"). [ [http://www.parlamentario.com/noticia-14812.html El ARI Autónomo mutó a Solidaridad e Igualdad Sí] , parlamentario.com, 18 May 2008.] [ [http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-104392-2008-05-18.html Dígale SI al nuevo partido opositor] , "Página/12", 18 May 2008.] Martínez's provincial party is particularly estranged from the national leadership and he has not joined the Civic Coalition block, sitting in an ARI block.

External links

* [http://www.senado.gov.ar/web/senadores/biografia.php?id_sena=391 Senate profile]

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