Jorge Capitanich

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Jorge Capitanich
Governor Jorge Capitanich (left) celebrating his victory in the recent Chaco gubernational election of 2007 with friends Gordan Stojović (center) and Juan Carlos Lakovic (right)
Governor of Chaco
In office 2007 – Incumbent
Lieutenant	Juan Carlos Bacileff Ivanoff
Preceded by	Roy Nikisch
Born	28 November 1864 Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña
Political party	Justicialist Party

Jorge Milton Capitanich (b. 28 November 1964) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician from Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, Chaco Province, currently the governor of that province. He formerly represented the Chaco Province in the Argentine Senate from 10 October 2001 to 12 September 2007.

Capitanich (originally probably Kapitanić) descends from the first Montenegrins who settled in Chaco and created Colonia La Montenegrina, the biggest Montenegrin colony in South America. He was an academic before entering politics. .

Capitanich was a government minister and became chief of cabinet to Eduardo Duhalde in 2002. He was elected senator for Chaco in 2001 and sits in the pro-President Kirchner Front for Victory block. In 2003 he stood to be governor of Chaco, but was defeated by Roy Nikisch of the Radical Civic Union. On 12 September 2007, he stepped down from the senate to be elected governor of Chaco on 16 September 2007. ^[1] He defeated former governor Ángel Rozas by just 0.8% of the vote^[2]. He assumed office as governor in December 2007.

[edit] Trivia

• He is the first Argentinian of Montenegrin origin to hold the Governor position of any Argentinian province.

[edit] References

1. ^ Montenegrina: Argentinac crnogorskog porijekla postao guverner argentinske provincije Chaco!
2. ^ Chaco: Jorge Capitanich se impuso por menos del 0,8% y se proclamó gobernador

[edit] External links

• Argentine Senate website
• Madness checks for Argentine politicians, BBC News Online, 12 September 2002

v • d • e Current governors of provinces and districts of Argentina     BA: Daniel Scioli (PJ) CT: Eduardo Brizuela del Moral (UCR) CH: Jorge Capitanich (PJ) CB: Mario Das Neves (PJ) CD: Juan Schiaretti (PJ) CR: Arturo Colombi (UCR) ER: Sergio Urribarri (PJ) FM: Gildo Insfrán (PJ) JJ: Walter Barrionuevo (PJ) LP: Oscar Mario Jorge (PJ) LR: Beder Herrera (PJ) MD: Celso Jaque (PJ) MS: Maurice Closs (PJ) NQ: Jorge Sapag (MPN) RN: Miguel Saiz (UCR) ST: Juan Manuel Urtubey (PJ) SJ: José Luis Gioja (PJ) SL: Alberto Rodríguez Saá (PJ) SC: Daniel Peralta (PJ) SF: Hermes Binner (PS) SE: Gerardo Zamora (UCR) TF: Fabiana Ríos (ARI) TC: José Alperovich (PJ) CF: Mauricio Macri (Compromiso Para el Cambio)

Preceded by Domingo Cavallo	Minister of Economy 2001–2001	Succeeded by Rodolfo Frigeri
Preceded by Roy Nikisch	Governor of Chaco 2007–Present	Succeeded by Incumbent