Julio Cobos
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| 34th Vice President of Argentina | |
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In office 10 December 2007 – 10 December 2011 |
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| President | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| Preceded by | Daniel Scioli |
| Succeeded by | Amado Boudou |
| Governor of Mendoza | |
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In office 10 December 2003 – 10 December 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Roberto Iglesias |
| Succeeded by | Celso Jaque |
| Senator for Mendoza | |
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Assumed office December 10, 2015 |
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April 30, 1955 Mendoza, Argentina |
| Political party | Radical Civic Union |
| Other political affiliations |
Front for Victory (2007 - 2008) |
| Alma mater | National Technological University |
| Profession | Civil and construction engineer |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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Julio César Cleto Cobos (born April 30, 1955) is an Argentine politician, serving as the Vice President of Argentina in the administration of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner from 2007 to 2011. He started his political career as member of the Radical Civic Union party (UCR), becoming Governor of the Province of Mendoza in 2003. He was expelled from the UCR in 2007, and was then selected by presidential candidate Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, of the ruling Front for Victory (FpV), as her candidate for vice-president in the elections of that year, which they won.
His popular prestige got a big boost in 2008, when the Senate was voting on a controversial and contentious law to increase taxes on grain exports. The voting ended in a tie, which gave Cobos, as President of the Senate, the deciding vote. In a stunning and now notorious move, he voted against the law. This led to strong criticism from his party, who deemed him a traitor, and approval from sectors of the population that opposed the government. As he further distanced himself from the FPV, the UCR revoked his expulsion from the party. By 2010, he was considered a potential candidate for the 2011 presidential elections.
Julio Cobos was born in 1955 in the city of Godoy Cruz, Mendoza. His parents are Fermín and Asunción, and he has two older brothers. He studied high school in the Military Liceum, and later in the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN). He graduated from construction engineering in 1979 and civil engineering in 1988. In 1980 he got married with Cristina Cerutti, having three sons. He later stayed at the UTN as teacher.
He got promoted to Dean of the local chapter of the UTN, in the 1997-2001 term, but requested licence from 1999 to 2001 to work in politics. he was later reelected for the 2001-2005 term.
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