Eduardo Duhalde

Eduardo Duhalde
Duhalde during Javier Milei's inauguration, 2023
54th President of Argentina
Interim
2 January 2002 – 25 May 2003
Preceded byAdolfo Rodríguez Saá (interim)
Succeeded byNéstor Kirchner
Vice President of Argentina
In office
8 July 1989 – 10 December 1991
PresidentCarlos Menem
Preceded byVíctor Hipolito Martínez
Succeeded byCarlos Ruckauf
National Senator
In office
11 December 2001 – 2 January 2002
ConstituencyBuenos Aires
Member of the Constitutional Convention
In office
1 May 1994 – 22 August 1994
ConstituencyBuenos Aires
Governor of Buenos Aires
In office
10 December 1991 – 10 December 1999
Vice GovernorRafael Romá
Preceded byAntonio Cafiero
Succeeded byCarlos Ruckauf
National Deputy
In office
10 December 1987 – 6 July 1989
ConstituencyBuenos Aires
Mayor of Lomas de Zamora
In office
11 December 1983 – 10 December 1987
Preceded byMilitary Junta
Succeeded byHugo Toledo
In office
8 August 1974 – 24 March 1976
Preceded byPedro Pablo Turner
Succeeded byMilitary Junta
Personal details
Born
Eduardo Alberto Duhalde

(1941-10-05) 5 October 1941 (age 83)
Lomas de Zamora, Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina
Political partyJusticialist Party
SpouseHilda Beatriz González
Alma materUniversity of Buenos Aires
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Eduardo Alberto Duhalde (Spanish pronunciation: [eˈðwaɾðo alˈβeɾto ˈðwalde] ; born 5 October 1941)[1] is an Argentine former peronist politician who served as the interim President of Argentina from January 2002 to May 2003.[2] He also served as Vice President and Governor of Buenos Aires in the 1990s.

Born in Lomas de Zamora, he was elected for the local legislature and appointed intendente (mayor) in 1973. He was deposed during the 1976 Argentine coup d'état, and elected again when democracy was restored in 1983. He was elected vice-president of Argentina in 1989, under President Carlos Menem. Duhalde resigned as vice president and was elected Governor of Buenos Aires Province in 1991, and re-elected in 1995.

He ran for president in 1999, being defeated by Fernando de la Rúa. De la Rúa resigned during the December 2001 riots, and Congress appointed the governor of San Luis Province Adolfo Rodríguez Saá as president. When Rodríguez Saá also resigned, Congress appointed Duhalde. During Duhalde's term in office, a huge currency devaluation and an increase of the exchange rate led to a gradual recovery. He successfully supported the candidate Néstor Kirchner against Menem, who sought a new presidential term. Duhalde had political disputes with Kirchner in later years, and is largely retired from politics since his defeat in the 2011 presidential elections.

Duhalde has been accused of having connections to drug trafficking, but there is no evidence of this.[3]

  1. ^ East, Roger; Thomas, Richard J. (3 June 2014). Profiles of People in Power: The World's Government Leaders. Routledge. p. 19. ISBN 9781317639404. Archived from the original on 9 December 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Galería de Presidentes". Archived from the original on 16 November 2020. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
  3. ^ "Duhalde y el Narcotrafico: Toda la verdad".

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