Gustavo Hein
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National Deputy
Assumed office
10 December 2019
ConstituencyEntre Ríos
Mayor of Basavilbaso
In office
10 December 2015 – 10 December 2019
Preceded bySilvio Valenzuela
Succeeded byHernán Bessel
Personal details
Born (1972-05-27) 27 May 1972 (age 51)
Basavilbaso, Argentina
Political partyRepublican Proposal
Other political
affiliations		Juntos por el Cambio (2015–present)

Gustavo René Hein (born 27 May 1972) is an Argentine politician currently serving as a National Deputy elected in 2019. A member of Republican Proposal (PRO), and the party's president in Entre Ríos Province, Hein previously served as intendente (mayor) of Basavilbaso, Entre Ríos, from 2015 to 2019.

Career

Hein first ran for office in 2015, when he was a candidate for mayor of his hometown of Basavilbaso for the Cambiemos alliance, which grouped the PRO, the UCR and other political forces. He faced off and won against former mayor Fabián Flores, of the Justicialist Party.[1][2] His administration of Basavilbaso received the "National Quality Prize" in 2018.[3]

In 2017, Hein became president of the Entre Ríos chapter of PRO, following a long-lasting judicial intervention on the party led by then-interior minister Rogelio Frigerio.[4] Hein's term as party president ended in 2020, when new party elections took place and a new candidate, Eduardo Caminal (who counted with supported from both Hein and Frigerio) took office.[5]

National Deputy

Near the end of his first term as mayor, in the 2019 legislative election, Hein ran for one of Entre Ríos' seats in the Chamber of Deputies as the second candidate in the Juntos por el Cambio list, behind Gabriela Mabel Lena. The list was the most voted in Entre Ríos, with 45.72% of the vote, both Lena and Hein were elected.[6] He was sworn in on 4 December 2019 and formed part of the Juntos por el Cambio parliamentary inter-bloc.[7]

As a national deputy, Hein formed part of the parliamentary commissions on Budgets and Finances, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Maritime Interests, Agriculture and Livestock, Internal Securituy, and Co-operative Affairs and NGOs.[8] Owing to his faith, he was a vocal opponent of the legalisation of abortion in Argentina. He voted against the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bill debated by the Argentine Congress in 2020, which eventually passed and went on to legalise abortion in 2021.[9] Hein was also one of 7 deputies to who abstained on the trans labour quota bill passed by the Chamber in 2021.[10]

2019 gubernatorial run

Hein was the running mate of the UCR's Atilio Benedetti for the governorship of Entre Ríos in the 2019 provincial election as part of the Cambiemos alliance.[11] The Benedetti–Hein ticket received 35.57% of the vote, losing to incumbent governor Gustavo Bordet of the Justicialist Party, who received 57.43% of the vote.[12]

Personal life

Hein was born on 27 May 1972 in Basavilbaso, Entre Ríos Province. He is married and has two children.[8] Hein is an Evangelical Christian.[13]

In 2019, Hein's private residence was subject to an arson attack allegedly by a neighbour. Nationwide PRO leader Patricia Bullrich initially attributed the attack on a Kirchnerist activist,[14] but Hein and his attorneys later clarified the attacker had been stalking him for three years and that the man in question had no evident political affiliation, but rather acted out of personal reasons.[15] The arsonist was later sentenced to three years in prison.[16]

References

  1. ^ "Gustavo Hein es el nuevo intendente electo de Basavilbaso". Análisis Digital (in Spanish). 26 October 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Intendencias: Los resultados en las principales localidades entrerrianas". El Once (in Spanish). 26 October 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  3. ^ "La gestión de un intendente entrerriano fue distinguida con el "Premio Nacional de Calidad"". El Entre Ríos (in Spanish). 17 December 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  4. ^ "Comenzó la "era Hein" en el PRO entrerriano". Informe Digital (in Spanish). 6 June 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  5. ^ "El PRO Entre Ríos tiene nuevo titular, ganando la interna por el 71 por ciento". El Entre Ríos (in Spanish). 28 November 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  6. ^ "Juntos por el Cambio ganó en Entre Ríos". UNO Entre Ríos (in Spanish). 31 October 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Juraron los 130 nuevos diputados y designaron a Massa como presidente de la Cámara". Infobae (in Spanish). 4 December 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  8. ^ a b "Gustavo René Hein". Directorio Legislativo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 18 December 2021.
  9. ^ "Gustavo Hein sobre el debate del aborto: «El gobierno quiere resolver todo de manera express y no piensa en soluciones integrales»". Colón Noticias (in Spanish). 29 November 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  10. ^ Jorquera, Miguel (12 June 2021). "Cómo votan los bloques en Diputados cuando se trata de ampliar derechos". Página/12 (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  11. ^ ""No queremos volver al pasado de la 125, ni de 678, ni al cepo, ni a las mafias", aseguró Bullrich". Télam (in Spanish). 6 June 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
  12. ^ "Bordet es el gobernador más votado desde la vuelta de la democracia". Diario Victoria (in Spanish). 11 June 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
  13. ^ "La mesa evangélica de Cambiemos, un "sub bloque" con juego en el Congreso". Letra P (in Spanish). 3 August 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  14. ^ "Patricia Bullrich denunció que un "ultra K" incendió el auto de un intendente de Cambiemos". Perfil (in Spanish). 16 July 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  15. ^ "Incendio en Basavilbaso: otro papelón de Macri y Bullrich". Página/12 (in Spanish). 20 July 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  16. ^ "Entre Ríos: condenaron a tres años de prisión al hombre que incendió la casa de un intendente". Infobae (in Spanish). 23 November 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2021.

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