José Luis Gioja

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José Luis Gioja
Governor of San Juan
In office 2003 – 2007
Lieutenant(s)	Marcelo Lima
Preceded by	Wbaldino Acosta
Succeeded by	incumbent
Born	1949 San José de Jáchal
Political party	Justicialist Party
Profession	Engineer

José Luis Gioja (born 1949) is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, current governor of San Juan Province and former President of the Argentine Senate.

In 1976, whilst working for the provincial government, Gioja was detained in a forced disappearance by the military authorities following that year's coup. He was imprisoned for nine months [1] and has claimed that he was tortured by Major Jorge Olivera [2].

In 1991, Gioja was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for San Juan for the Popular Justicialist Front. He was re-elected in 1995, but took a seat as a senator following constitutional reform increasing the number of senators. He was re-elected to the Senate in 2001 and led the Peronist bloc in the Senate from 2000, serving as Senate President from 2002.

Gioja was elected governor in 2003 with the backing of the Front for Victory faction allied to Néstor Kirchner. He has been implicated in the Senate scandal in which state funds were allegedly used to bribe senators for their vote for a labour reform package by then President of Argentina Fernando de la Rúa.

His elder brother César Gioja is a senator.

[edit] External links

• (Spanish) San Juan Province
• (Spanish) Profile, Clarín, 2002-12-28

Preceded by: Juan Carlos Maqueda	Provisory President of the Argentine Senate 2002–2003	Succeeded by: Marcelo Guinle
Preceded by: Wbaldino Acosta	Governor of San Juan 2003 – present	Incumbent