Sergio Casas
National Deputy
Assumed office
10 December 2019
ConstituencyLa Rioja
Governor of La Rioja
In office
10 December 2015 – 10 December 2019
Vice GovernorNéstor Bosetti
Preceded byLuis Beder Herrera
Succeeded byRicardo Quintela
Vice Governor of La Rioja
In office
10 December 2011 – 10 December 2015
GovernorLuis Beder Herrera
Preceded byTeresita Luna
Succeeded byNéstor Bosetti
Provincial Legislator of La Rioja
In office
10 December 1995 – 10 December 2011
ConstituencySan Blas de los Sauces
Personal details
Born (1971-01-13) 13 January 1971 (age 53)
San Blas de los Sauces, Argentina
Political partyJusticialist Party / Front for Victory

Sergio Casas (born 13 January 1971) is an Argentine politician who was Governor of La Rioja Province from 2015 to 2019. He previously served as Vice Governor and as a member of the La Rioja provincial legislature. Since 2019, he has been a National Deputy.

Political career

Casas was a local deputy for the La Rioja Province from 1995 to 2011. He served as vice-governor from 2011 to 2015, under Luis Beder Herrera. He won the primary elections in the local Justicialist Party to run as governor, defeating the ministers Javier Tineo and Néstor Bosetti; Bosetti would run as his candidate for vicegovernor.[1] He was elected governor in 2015 with the 53% of the vote.[2] The candidate of the Radical Civic Union denounced electoral fraud, but eventually accepted Casas' victory.[3] The province allows for a re-election, but as he served as vice-governor and governor in two consecutive terms, he may not run again in 2019. He acknowledges both the former governor Beder Herrera and the former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as political leaders.[2]

Casas attended the presidential inauguration of Mauricio Macri on December 10, 2015, in spite of the instructions from the Front for Victory to avoid doing so. He then returned to La Rioja, to take office as governor.[4] He had a personal meeting with Macri shortly after they took office, and they talked about the problems of the province. They agreed in the need to improve the infrastructure of the province.[5] In contrast with Beder Herrera, Casas received the local mayors and legislators of other political parties, to arrange joint actions on behalf of the province.[6] He announced that he would promote the production of tomatoes.[7]

He made an amendment to the constitution of La Rioja, to be able to run for a new term in 2019. It was followed by a referendum: only 43.95% of the registered voters attended it, and of those 25.27% supported the amendment and 17.90% rejected it. However, the local parties did not agree on the interpretation of the results. Cambiemos, the main opposition alliance, considered that Casas should have obtained 35% of the vote to approve the amendment, and Casas considered that it was instead the explicit rejection the one that should have achieved such 35%. As a result, they did not agree if the amendment should be in force or not.[8]

References

  1. ^ "El vicegobernador Sergio Casas será el candidato del oficialismo en La Rioja" [The vicegovernor Sergio Casas will be the official candidate in La Rioja] (in Spanish). La Gaceta. 9 March 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  2. ^ a b Santiago Dapelo (7 July 2015). "Sergio Casas: "La Presidenta seguirá siendo la líder del proyecto"" [Sergio Casas: "The president will still be the leader of this project"] (in Spanish). La Nación. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  3. ^ "Casas ganó en La Rioja y ratificó la hegemonía del peronismo, pero la oposición denunció fraude" [Casas won in La Rioja and ratified the hegemony of Peronism, but the opposition denounced electoral fraud] (in Spanish). Infobae. 5 July 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  4. ^ Julio Aiub Morales (10 December 2015). "Otro gobernador del PJ avisó que viene a la jura de Macri" [Another governor of the PJ announced that he's coming for the oath of Macri] (in Spanish). Clarín. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  5. ^ "Vamos por el buen camino en la relación con Macri" [We are in the good way in the relation with Macri] (in Spanish). Rioja Libre. 14 December 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  6. ^ "Hoy recibe a los 18 Intendentes" [Today he receives the 18 mayors] (in Spanish). Rioja Libre. 15 December 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  7. ^ "Casas elogió el perfil productivo de La Rioja y anunció que este año se procesarán 45 millones de kilos de tomates" [Casas praised the productive profile of La Rioja and announced that this year will produce 45 million kilos of tomatoes] (in Spanish). El diario de La Rioja. 26 December 2015. Archived from the original on 30 January 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  8. ^ "Los riojanos le dieron la espalda al plebiscito de Sergio Casas: solo votó el 44 por ciento del padrón" [The Riojans rejected Sergio Casas' referendum: only 44% of voters voted] (in Spanish). Infobae. 27 January 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2019.

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Preceded byLuis Beder Herrera Governor of La Rioja 10 December 2015 – 10 December 2019 Succeeded byRicardo Quintela
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