| Eduardo Camaño | |
| Office: | Minister of Government of Buenos Aires Province |
| Term Start: | 20 March 2009 |
| Term End: | 10 December 2011 |
| Governor: | Daniel Scioli |
| Predecessor: | Alberto Pérez |
| Successor: | Cristina Álvarez Rodríguez |
| Office1: | President of the Chamber of Deputies in exercise of the Executive Branch |
| Term Start1: | 31 December 2001 |
| Term End1: | 2 January 2002 |
| Office2: | President of the Chamber of Deputies |
| Term Start2: | 5 December 2001 |
| Term End2: | 6 December 2005 |
| Predecessor2: | Rafael Pascual |
| Successor2: | Alberto Balestrini |
| Office3: | National Deputy |
| Term Start3: | 10 December 1991 |
| Term End3: | 10 December 2007 |
| Constituency3: | Buenos Aires Province |
| Office4: | Mayor of Quilmes |
| Term Start4: | 10 December 1987 |
| Term End4: | 10 December 1991 |
| Predecessor4: | Eduardo Vides |
| Successor4: | Aníbal Fernández |
| Birth Date: | 17 June 1946 |
| Birth Place: | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Party: | Justicialist |
| Profession: | Lawyer |
| Signature: | Firma Eduardo Camaño.jpg |
Eduardo Oscar Camaño ((pronounced as /es/; born 17 June 1946) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He was in charge of the executive branch in a caretaker capacity, effectively acting as president, for two days between 31 December 2001, and 1 January 2002.[1] [2] [3]
Camaño was Mayor of Quilmes Partido from 1987 to 1991. Until 2007 he sat in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies as a deputy elected in Buenos Aires Province. He served as majority leader of the lower house of the Argentine Congress from 2001, hence bringing him to the position of acting president. He became head of the executive branch because of the resignations of interim President Adolfo Rodríguez Saá and provisional Senate president Ramón Puerta.[4]
In recent years he sat in the Federal Peronist block allied to Eduardo Duhalde, largely in opposition to then President Néstor Kirchner. In 2007, Camaño stood again for deputy, this time heading a list of anti-Kirchner Peronists in support of the presidential bid of dissident Peronist Roberto Lavagna. The list did badly and he faced a recount for the final place in the Chamber for the Province with Ricardo Cuccovillo of the Civic Coalition.[5] Ultimately Cuccovillo was sworn in as deputy and Camaño lost his seat.
Camaño chaired the national council of the Justicialist Party, making him de facto party leader, alongside supporters of both Duhalde and Kirchner. In 2008, when Kirchner assumed the leadership of the Justicialist Party, Camaño was offered an executive position, the only ally of Lavagna to do so, in what had been seen as a chance to reconcile the different wings of Peronism.[6]
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