Julio Cobos

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Julio Cobos

Governor of Mendoza
In office 2003 – 2007
Lieutenant(s)	Juan Carlos Jaliff
Preceded by	Roberto Iglesias
Succeeded by	incumbent

Born	1955-04-30
Political party	Radical Civic Union
Profession	civil and construction engineer

Julio César Cleto Cobos (born 1955-04-30) is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician, current governor of Mendoza Province.

Cobos has an academic background in civil engineering, graduating from the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional and teaching at this and other universities. He joined the UCR in 1991 and took public office as an official in the municipality of Mendoza then as minister of Environment and Public Works in the government of Mendoza Province 1999-2000. He was dean of the regional faculty of the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional 1997-2003. He was elected governor in 2003, heading a coalition between Radicals with Recrear and Federalists.

After his election, Cobos became a leading supporter of Peronist President Néstor Kirchner in Radical ranks, taking a more left-wing position. He is in dispute with other Radicals in Mendoza, led by former governor Roberto Iglesias, now Radical leader, over his support for Kirchner and their desire to back another presidential candidate in the 2007 elections [1]. Mendoza's Constitution doesn't allow re-election however he support a fellow-partisan to take office in 2007 on the same slate as Kirchner.