Horacio Massaccesi
| Horacio Massaccesi | |
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Senator for Río Negro Province |
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In office August 10, 1997 – December 10, 2001 |
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| Governor of Río Negro Province | |
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In office December 10, 1987 – December 10, 1995 |
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| Preceded by | Osvaldo Álvarez Guerrero |
| Succeeded by | Pablo Verani |
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September 12, 1948 Villa Regina |
| Political party | Radical Civic Union (UCR) |
| Spouse(s) | Patricia Querejeta |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Horacio Massaccesi (born September 12, 1948) is an Argentine politician and former Governor of Río Negro Province.
Massaccesi was born in 1948 to an Italian Argentine family in Villa Regina, then a largely agricultural town on the banks of the Río Negro ("Black River") in Argentina's region of Patagonia. He joined the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR) in 1974, while in law school, and on Argentina's return to democracy in 1983, Massaccesi was elected to the Provincial Legislature. Governor Osvaldo Álvarez Guerrero named him Minister of Government (similar to a Chief of Staff) in 1984, a recognition which led to his election to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies (Lower House of Congress) in 1985.
Elected by a 38-35% margin over populist Justicialist Party candidate Remo Costanzo, Massaccesi became one of only two UCR Governors elected in 1987, after the popular Álvarez Guerrero was termed out of office. Upon taking office, Massaccesi advanced a new Provincial Constitution. Enacted in 1988, the document allowed him to run for reelection. Following Justicialist Party candidate Carlos Menem's landslide defeat of the UCR for the presidency in 1989, Massaccesi adopted a pragmatic stance towards the unpredictable Menem, distancing himself with Álvarez Guerrero. Continuing financial instability, however, led Menem's new Economy Minister, Domingo Cavallo, to retain around US$60 million in revenue sharing funds derived from the orchard-rich Río Negro Province's growing export earnings. The province, which in turn owed the central bank US$100 million, found itself in circumstances not unlike most provinces in Argentina at the time.
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