Luis Juez
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Senator from Córdoba Province |
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Assumed office December 10, 2009 |
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| Mayor of Córdoba, Argentina | |
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In office December 10, 2003 – December 10, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Germán Kammerath |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Giacomino |
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September 13, 1963 Córdoba, Argentina |
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Justicialist Party (1983-2002) New Party (2002-) Broad Progressive Front |
| Spouse(s) | Victoria Corte |
| Alma mater | National University of Córdoba |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Luis Alberto Juez (born September 13, 1963) is an Argentine politician who served as Mayor of the City of Córdoba and was later elected to the Senate.
Luis Juez was born in Córdoba, Argentina, to Adela Losada, the daughter of Spanish Argentine immigrants form La Coruña, and Gabriel Juez, the son of Arab Argentine immigrants from Syria. Encouraged by his father, a former Army officer, Juez studied at the General Paz Military Lyceum, though he ultimately opted against a military career, and enrolled at the National University of Córdoba. Juez, whose father had been jailed by the dictatorship that overthrew President Juan Perón in 1955, was active in the Peronist Youth, earning a juris doctor in 1985. He married the former Victoria Corte in 1992, and they had four children.
He was appointed to the Provincial Legislature in 1994 to fill a vacancy, and in 1995, was elected on a party list headed by fellow Peronist José Manuel de la Sota. The body's approval of a bill to raise legislators' salaries amid a recession led to his resignation within a year, however. He ran for the office of Mayor of Córdoba in 1998; but he was defeated in the Justicialist Party primaries by Germán Kammerath, who had received de la Sota's endorsement. De la Sota was elected Governor in 1999, and Juez was appointed Director of the Highway Bureau.
Governor de la Sota named Juez Director of the Corruption Prosecution Office in 2000. The appointment proved contentious, however, when the director uncovered evidence of racketeering by, among others, Mayor Kammerath, Public Works Minister Carlos Caserio, and the governor's Chief of Staff (and wife), Olga Ruitort. Lacking support from the governor, Juez resigned on October 10, 2002. His alliance with de la Sota ended, though the latter recognized their 20-year friendship by allowing Juez to step down without formally accepting a resignation, which left Juez's health benefits intact; Juez's youngest daughter had been born premature, and required six months' hospitalization.
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