Ramón Saadi

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Ramón Eduardo Saadi (b. 1949) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician, currently a senator for Catamarca Province and a former governor of that province. He is a member of the Saadi family that has dominated Catamarca politics, son of Vicente Saadi who first became governor of the province in the 1940s.

Saadi studied law at the University of Buenos Aires graduating on 25 April 1977. He was president of the Peronist youth wing of Catamarca. In 1982 he was editor of the newspaper La Voz.

In 1983, Saadi was elected governor of Catamarca. In 1987 he stepped down and was elected Senator. However, his replacement as governor, his father Vicente Saadi, died in 1988 and Ramón Saadi returned to replace him. In 1991 he was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies representing Catamarca, re-elected in 1999. In 2003 he was elected once again to the Senate. He sits in the Front for Victory block of President Néstor Kirchner, although he was previously an ally of Carlos Menem.