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.
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]