Pablo Verani

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Pablo Verani
Argentine Senator from Río Negro Province
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 December 2007
Governor of Río Negro
In office 9 December 1995 – 10 December 2003
Lieutenant	Bautista Mendioroz^[1]
Preceded by	Horacio Massacesi
Succeeded by	Miguel Saiz

Nationality	Argentine
Political party	Radical Civic Union

Pablo Federico Verani (b. 1938) is an Argentine politician, formerly of the Radical Civic Union (UCR). He sits in the Argentine Senate representing Río Negro Province, sitting in the block of the Plural Consensus in support of the ruling Front for Victory. He is a former governor of the province.

Verani was elected Mayor of General Roca 1985-89 then served as vice-governor. He was elected governor of Río Negro in 1995 and was re-elected in 1999. After stepping down in 2003, Verani then served as provincial minister for planning and development.

Verani was President of the provincial Radicals. Like his successor as governor, Miguel Saiz, Verani is a leading figure in the ranks of those Radicals who support the ruling Front for Victory of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Néstor Kirchner, the so-called Radicales K. Following a struggle to wrest control of the provincial party, Verani and Saiz were expelled from the Radicals in December 2007.

In 2007 Verani was elected as the third Senator for his province, heading the list of the Alliance Consensus for Development. He chairs the Committee of Science and Technology.