Jorge Capitanich

Infobox Governor
name= Jorge Capitanich


caption=Governor Jorge Capitanich (left) celebrating his victory in the recent Chaco gubernational election of 2007 with friends Gordan Stojović (center) and Juan Carlos Lakovic (right)
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office= Governor of Chaco
term_start=December 10, 2007
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lieutenant= Juan Carlos Bacileff Ivanoff
predecessor= Roy Nikisch
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birth_date= 28 November 1964
birth_place= Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña
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party= Justicialist Party
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Jorge Milton Capitanich (born 28 November 1964) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician from Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, Chaco Province, currently the governor of that province. He formerly represented the Chaco Province in the Argentine Senate from 10 October 2001 to 12 September 2007.

Capitanich (originally probably "Kapitanić") descends from the first Montenegrins who settled in Chaco and created "Colonia La Montenegrina", the biggest Montenegrin colony in South America. He was an academic before entering politics.

Capitanich was a government minister and became chief of cabinet to Eduardo Duhalde in 2002. He was elected senator for Chaco in 2001 and sits in the pro-President Kirchner Front for Victory block. In 2003 he stood to be governor of Chaco, but was defeated by Roy Nikisch of the Radical Civic Union. On 12 September 2007, he stepped down from the senate to be elected governor of Chaco on 16 September2007. [http://www.montenegrina.net/pages/pages1/dijaspora/guverner_argentinske_provincije_chaco.htm Montenegrina: Argentinac crnogorskog porijekla postao guverner argentinske provincije Chaco!] ] He defeated former governor Ángel Rozas by just 0.8% of the vote [http://www.clarin.com/diario/2007/09/16/um/m-01500554.htm Chaco: Jorge Capitanich se impuso por menos del 0,8% y se proclamó gobernador] ] . He assumed office as governor in December 2007.

Trivia

*He is the first Argentinian of Montenegrin origin to hold the Governor position of any Argentinian province.

References

External links

* [http://capitanich.senado.gov.ar/ Argentine Senate website]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2254031.stm Madness checks for Argentine politicians] , BBC News Online, 12 September 2002