Miguel Lifschitz

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Roberto Miguel Lifschitz (born September 13, 1955 in Rosario), is the current mayor of the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina.^[1]

He obtained his degree at the Engineering Faculty of the National University of Rosario in 1979 and acted in the private field until 1989, when he became Director-General of the Public Housing Service (Director General del Servicio Público de la Vivienda) of the city of Rosario, under the socialist administration of Héctor Cavallero. ^[2]

He continued working in various public offices, as Municipal Secretary-General (Secretario General de la Municipalidad), Public Services' Secretary (Secretario de Servicios Públicos) and General Cabinet Coordinator for the Municipality of Rosario (Coordinador General de Gabinete de la Municipalidad de Rosario), beetween June and December 2003, under the administration of Hermes Binner.

Lifschitz ran for Mayor of Rosario and was elected in the provincial elections of 7 September 2003 for the period 2003–2007, by only 5,000 votes over the next candidate. At the time a survey showed that he was known by only 35% of Rosario's citizens. In 2006 he began acknowledging he could run for reelection. ^[3] In March 2007, a survey showed that Lifschitz would win by a wide margin over any of the other major prospective candidates (52.9% of the total votes). ^[4]

Lifschitz competed in the primaries of the Progressive, Civic and Social Front, on 1 July 2007, against Carlos Comi (of ARI). He obtained about 90% of the vote. In the main election of 2 September 2007, he won his reelection for the period 2007–2011 by a landslide (57–31%) over his closest competitor, former Socialist mayor Héctor Cavallero (who ran for the Peronist-led Front for Victory). ^[5]