Hermes Binner
| Hermes Binner | |
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| Governor of Santa Fe | |
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In office December 10, 2007 – December 10, 2011 |
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| Vice Governor | Griselda Tessio |
| Preceded by | Jorge Obeid |
| Succeeded by | Antonio Bonfatti |
| Mayor of Rosario | |
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In office December 10, 1995 – December 10, 2003 |
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| Preceded by | Héctor Cavallero |
| Succeeded by | Miguel Lifschitz |
| Personal details | |
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Hermes Juan Binner June 5, 1943 Rafaela, Santa Fe Province, Argentina |
| Nationality | Argentine |
| Political party | Socialist Party |
| Spouse(s) | Silvana Codina |
| Alma mater | National University of Rosario |
| Profession | Physician |
| Website | http://www.hermesbinner.com.ar |
Hermes Juan Binner (born June 5, 1943) is an Argentine physician and a politician. He was elected Governor of Santa Fe in 2007. Binner is the first Socialist to become the governor of an Argentine province, and the first non-Justicialist to rule Santa Fe since 1983.
Binner was previously a Deputy of the Civic and Social Progressive Front, a Santa Fe party coalition including the Socialist Party, the Radical Civic Union and other left-wing parties, since the parliamentary elections of October 23, 2005.
Binner was born and raised in Rafaela, Santa Fe Province, to a Swiss Argentine family. He attended primary school at St. Joseph's College, and then attended high school at the Rafaela National College, where he began his political activity through participation in the Student Center. At the time (1958) the need for public free non-religious education was being hotly debated in Argentina.
Binner moved to Rosario to study Medicine at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario. At 18 he became affiliated with the Argentine Socialist Party and continued to exercise an intense political activity, both as a member of the Student Center and at the institutional level in the Faculty of Medicine. After the 1966 coup d'état, he participated in the movements resisting the military dictatorship of General Juan Carlos Onganía, against a background of political and ideological persecution.
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