Miguel Ángel Pichetto
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Senator from Río Negro Province |
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Assumed office December 10, 2001 |
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In office December 10, 1993 – December 10, 1997 |
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National Deputy from Río Negro Province |
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In office December 10, 1993 – December 10, 1997 |
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| Member of the Río Negro Chamber of Deputies | |
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In office 1988–1993 |
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| Mayor of Sierra Grande, Río Negro | |
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In office 1985–1987 |
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24 October 1950 Banfield, Buenos Aires |
| Nationality | Argentine |
| Political party | Justicialist Party/Front for Victory |
| Spouse(s) | María Teresa Minassian |
| Alma mater | National University of La Plata |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Miguel Ángel Pichetto (born October 24, 1950) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He has served as Senator for Río Negro Province and is the Leader of the Senate mayority.
Pichetto was born in Banfield, Buenos Aires. He earned a law degree at the National University of La Plata in 1976 and relocated to Río Negro Province, where he served as counsel for Hierro Patagónico Sierra Grande, a pig iron smelter, and for the Provincial Government. He was elected to the Sierra Grande City Council in 1983, and in 1985 became mayor of the city, serving until 1987. Pichetto married María Teresa Minassian, with whom he had two children.
Pichetto was elected to the Provincial Assembly in 1988, and was re-elected in 1991. He was named president of the Río Negro Province chapter of the PJ, and was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 1993. He was named Vice-President of the Justicialist caucus in the Lower House in 1997; elections that year resulted in steep losses for the PJ, and Pichetto was not re-elected to a second term. Throughout his career he was a "disciplined" party man, and supported President Carlos Menem's neo-liberal break from the traditionally populist PJ platform during the 1990s. Pichetto took a leading role on legal, justice and penal matters and was appointed to the Council of Magistrates of the Nation, the senior justice advisory body, in 1998, and re-elected in 2001. He sat on the committees on prosecution, the appointment of judges and judicial school, and later chaired the disciplinary committee, and served on the administration and finance committees.
Pichetto was elected senator in 2001, his term ending in 2007. He was elected President of the PJ caucus in the Senate on December 30, 2002, and despite his earlier support for the more conservative Menem, became a prominent Kirchnerist. He thus joined the center-left Front for Victory faction of the PJ in support of President Néstor Kirchner.
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