Daniel Peralta
| Daniel Peralta | |
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Governor Daniel Peralta.
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| Governor of Santa Cruz | |
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Assumed office December 10, 2007 |
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| Lieutenant | Hernán Martínez Crespo |
| Preceded by | Carlos Sancho |
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| Born |
July 1, 1955 Cañada de Gómez, Santa Fe Province |
| Political party | Justicialist Party |
| Profession | Bank officer |
Daniel Román Peralta (born July 1, 1955) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician, elected governor of Santa Cruz Province in 2007.
Peralta was born in Cañada de Gómez, Santa Fe Province. His parents, Nélida Cremona and Hugo Peralta, relocated to Santa Cruz Province and both became prominent Peronist figures there. Their son became a bank teller, and joined the Bank Employees' Union in 1973. He was named secretary general of the Bank Employees' Union of Santa Cruz in 1983, and later head of the provincial chapter of the CGT. Peralta was appointed Minister of Social Policy by Governor Ricardo del Val in 1988. He returned to the private sector in 1991 as manager of the Punta Arenas, Chile, branch of the then state-owned Bank of Santa Cruz, and in 1995 became manager of its central branch in Río Gallegos. Peralta led the transitional committee during the bank's 1996 privatization.
Governor Néstor Kirchner, who had been a protégé of Peralta's parents, appointed him Secretary of Labor in 1999, and in 2003, he was elected to the Provincial Legislature on the Justicialist Party ticket. Kirchner, who became President of Argentina, appointed Peralta director of the state coal concern, Yacimientos Carboníferos Fiscales (YCF), in 2004. Taking a leave of absence from the party's regional congress, Peralta accepted the post following a mine accident which killed 14.
Upon incumbent governor Carlos Sancho's announcement of his resignation on May 11, 2007, in which he cited poor health (Sancho had himself taken office when the previous governor resigned amid scandal and fights with Kirchner), Peralta returned to his post as Provincial Deputy and was elected 1st Vice President of the House of Deputies, effectively making him the legislature's senior member. This allowed him to be named acting governor upon Sancho's resignation.
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