Ramón Saadi Explained

Ramón Saadi
Image Name:Rsaadi.jpg
Office:National Senator
Term Start:10 December 2003
Term End:10 December 2009
Constituency:Catamarca
Term Start1:10 December 1987
Term End1:10 July 1988
Constituency1:Catamarca
Office2:National Deputy
Term Start2:10 December 1991
Term End2:10 December 2003
Constituency2:Catamarca
Office3:Governor of Catamarca
Term Start3:10 July 1988
Term End3:28 April 1991
Preceded3:Vicente Saadi
Succeeded3:Luis Prol
Term Start4:10 December 1983
Term End4:10 December 1987
Preceded4:Arnoldo Castillo
Succeeded4:Vicente Saadi
Birth Date:6 February 1949
Birth Place:San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, Catamarca Province, Argentina
Death Place:San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, Catamarca Province, Argentina
Alma Mater:University of Buenos Aires
Party:Justicialist Party
Occupation:Lawyer

Ramón Eduardo Saadi (6 February 1949 – 8 February 2023) was an Argentine senator and governor for Catamarca Province and a member of the Argentine Justicialist Party. He was a member of the Saadi family that has dominated Catamarca politics since the 1940s and a son of Vicente Saadi who first became governor of the province in 1949.

Life and career

Born in San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca to a father of Syrian descent, Saadi studied law at the University of Buenos Aires, graduating in 1977. He was president of the Peronist youth wing of Catamarca, and in 1982 was named editor of the newspaper La Voz.

Saadi was elected governor of Catamarca in 1983. In 1987, after his term expired, he was elected Senator and was succeeded as governor by his own father, Vicente Saadi. The elder Saadi died in 1988, however, and Ramón Saadi returned to Catamarca to be elected governor once again. The 1990 murder of María Soledad Morales by two youths whose fathers were linked to Governor Saadi led to a national outcry, and ultimately to the governor's removal by federal intervention on 28 April 1991.[1]

Saadi was, despite the controversy, elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies that September, and was twice re-elected, serving until 2003. He was returned to the Senate that year, as part of the Front for Victory caucus of President Néstor Kirchner, although having been previously an ally of Carlos Menem.[2] His term expired on 10 December 2009.

Saadi died on 9 February 2023, at the age of 74.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: María Soledad, la "soledad" de los que claman justicia. Letra Viva.
  2. News: Ramón Saadi, el aliado impensado de los Kirchner. La Capital . agrositio.com . 17 July 2008.
  3. News: Ramón Saadi, the former governor of Catamarca marked by the femicide of María Soledad Morales, died . 9 February 2023 . Paudal . 8 February 2023.