Omar Perotti
{{short description|Former Governor of Santa Fe}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Omar Perotti
|image = Senado debate IVE - 8 ago 2018 80.jpg
|order = Governor of Santa Fe
|vicegovernor = Alejandra Rodenas
|term_start = 11 December 2019
|term_end = 11 December 2023
|predecessor = Miguel Lifschitz
|successor = Maximiliano Pullaro
|office1 = National Senator
|term_start1 = 10 December 2015
|term_end1 = 10 December 2019
|constituency1= Santa Fe
|office2 = National Deputy
|term_start2 = 10 December 2011
|term_end2 = 10 December 2015
|constituency2= Santa Fe
|office3 = Mayor of Rafaela
|term_start3 = 10 December 2003
|term_end3 = 10 December 2011
|predecessor3 = Ricardo M. Pairone
|successor3 = Luis Castellano
|term_start4 = 10 December 1991
|term_end4 = 10 December 1995
|predecessor4 = Jorge Fernández
|successor4 = Ricardo M. Peirone
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|9|16|df=y}}
|birth_place = Rafaela, Argentina
|death_date =
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|party = Justicialist Party
|otherparty = Front for Victory (2011–2017)
Frente de Todos (2019–present)
|spouse =
|alma_mater = National University of the Littoral
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Omar Ángel Perotti (born 16 September 1959) is an Argentine accountant and Justicialist Party politician. He was Governor of Santa Fe from 2019 to 2023, National Senator from 2015 to 2019, and from 2011 to 2015 he was a National Deputy, always representing the same province. He was also intendente (mayor) of Rafaela from 1991 to 1995 and again from 2003 to 2011.
Early life and education
Perotti was born on 16 September 1959 in Rafaela, in Santa Fe Province.{{cite web|url=https://www.grupolaprovincia.com/politica/omar-perotti-asume-la-gobernacion-de-la-provincia-de-santa-fe-415135|work=Grupo La Provincia|title=Omar Perotti asume la gobernación de Santa Fe|date=10 December 2019|access-date=19 November 2020|language=es}} His father, Miguel Ángel Perotti, owned a traditional tambo (milking yard) in the outskirts of Rafaela.{{cite web|url=https://www.ellitoral.com/index.php/id_um/249939-fallecio-el-padre-del-gobernador-omar-perotti-tenia-87-anos-regionales.html|work=El Litoral|title=Falleció el padre del gobernador Omar Perotti|date=18 July 2020|access-date=19 November 2020|language=es}}{{cite web|url=https://www.lavoz.com.ar/politica/quien-es-omar-perotti-peronista-que-desbanco-al-socialismo-en-santa-fe|work=La Voz|title=Quién es Omar Perotti, el peronista que desbancó al socialismo en Santa Fe|date=16 June 2019|access-date=19 November 2020|language=es}} Perotti studied accounting at the National University of the Littoral and worked as an accountant in Santa Fe City.
Political career
Perotti's first elected post was as intendente (mayor) of his hometown, Rafaela. He was elected in 1991, aged 31. Upon finishing his term in 1995 he was appointed Minister of Agriculture in the cabinet of Governor Jorge Obeid, a post he held until 1999, when he was elected to the Provincial Senate. After a stint as an IDB advisor in Washington in 2002, Perotti returned to Rafaela to run for a second term in the mayoralty in 2003 and was elected.
He was reelected in 2007.{{cite web|url=https://www.fundacionkonex.org/b3035-omar-perotti|work=Fundación KONEX|title=Omar Perotti|access-date=19 November 2020|language=es}} During his second term he was subject to criticism for his alignment with the national government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner during the conflict between the government and the agrarian sector.{{cite web|url=https://www.lapoliticaonline.com/nota/nota-24528/|work=La Política Online|title=La destrucción política de Omar Perotti|date=1 June 2008|access-date=19 November 2020|language=es}} In 2011 he was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in the Front for Victory list, representing Santa Fe Province. In 2015 he ran for the governorship of the province, but landed third in the primary elections, behind the Socialist Party candidate Miguel Lifschitz and the PRO candidate Miguel del Sel.{{cite web|url=https://www.lavoz.com.ar/politica/perotti-admitio-que-perdio-en-las-eleccion|work=La Voz|title=Perotti admitió que perdió en las elecciones de Santa Fe|date=20 June 2015|access-date=19 November 2020|language=es}} That same year he was elected to the National Senate, also representing Santa Fe, for a six-year term.{{cite web|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-284680-2015-10-26.html|work=Página/12|title=En Santa Fe ganaron Omar Perotti y Marcos Cleri|date=26 October 2015|access-date=19 November 2020|language=es}}
As Senator, he became known nationwide for his abstention in the debate for the Legal Pregnancy Interruption bill in 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.clarin.com/politica/omar-perotti-unico-indefinido-aborto-votara_0_HymnzKurQ.html|work=Clarín|title=Omar Perotti se abstendrá y quiere que se trate su proyecto alternativo|date=8 August 2018|access-date=19 November 2020|language=es}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ellitoral.com/index.php/id_um/195450-perotti-explico-su-postura-en-relacion-al-aborto-el-precandidato-a-gobernador-de-santa-fe-paso-por-en-el-umbral-politica.html|work=El Litoral|title=Perotti explicó su postura en relación al aborto|date=25 June 2019|access-date=19 November 2020|language=es}}
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Category:Members of the Argentine Senate for Santa Fe
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