José Manuel Corral
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28 October 1968 Santa Fe, Santa Fe, Argentina |
| Known for | Mayor of the Santa Fe city |
José Manuel Corral (Santa Fe, Santa Fe, Argentina, October 28, 1968) is a lawyer, a political activist of the Unión Cívica Radical party, and a member of the Coalition Frente Progresista Cívico y Social of Santa Fe. He was the President of the Municipal Council of the City of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz (2010–2011). He has been reelected Mayor of the city of Santa Fe, Santa Fe province, Argentina, (2011–2015 / 2015–2019).
He was born in Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz on October 28, 1968, to his parents Súper Manuel Corral and Celia García. He attended primary school at the School No. 6 Mariano Moreno and high School at the Industrial High School (EIS for its initials in Spanish), ending his studies at the High School No. 331 Admiral Guillermo Brown, earning a high school degree with a physical-mathematical orientation.
During the first years of Argentina's return to democracy (during the eighties), he began his political activism at his high school, where he promoted –together with other students– the creation of students’ unions throughout the city. He was elected president of the Students’ Union of the Almirante Brown school. He studied law at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral Law School, where he was elected President of the Students’ Union in 1992 with 63% of the votes.
In 1994 he chaired the Universidad Nacional del Litoral Federation (FUL for its acronym in Spanish), which a second-degree body which brings together all students’ unions of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL for its initials in Spanish). In that year, he named Ernesto Sábato –the prestigious argentine writer– as the Honorary President of the FUL. In 1995 –at a national seminar, where more than 2,000 young activists participated– he was elected Secretary General of the National Bureau of the University Political Group Franja Morada. Corral held that position for two years.
In 1998 he joined the university activity in the area of Planning and Evaluation. In 1999 he was designated Secretary of the University Extension office.
In November 2003, he was elected for the position of Secretary General of the UNL.
He completed his studies for an M.A. degree in Public Administration, at the College of Economic Sciences (FCE for its initials in Spanish) of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral. In December 2007 he was appointed Government Secretary by the mayor of Santa Fe, Mario Barletta. In that position, he worked to incorporate transparency policies to the current administration. He incorporated the camera system surveillance and the voluntary disarmament program. He also established a compulsory entrance exam to join the public administration and training courses for all municipal employees, as well as negotiations with the National Government claiming for the Train Station Manuel Belgrano and the City Train, among other projects.
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