Mario Barletta | |
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| National Deputy | |
| Assumed office 10 December 2021 | |
| Constituency | Santa Fe |
| In office 10 December 2013 – 10 December 2017 | |
| Constituency | Santa Fe |
| Ambassador of Argentina to Uruguay | |
| In office 24 January 2018 – 10 December 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Guillermo Montenegro |
| Succeeded by | Alberto Iribarne |
| President of the National Committee of theRadical Civic Union | |
| In office 16 December 2011 – 4 December 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Ernesto Sanz |
| Succeeded by | José Manuel Corral |
| Mayor ofSanta Fe, Argentina | |
| In office 10 December 2007 – 10 December 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Ezequiel Balbarrey |
| Succeeded by | José Corral |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1953-12-30)December 30, 1953 (age 71) |
| Political party | Radical Civic Union |
| Alma mater | National University of the Littoral Latin American Social Sciences Institute |
| Profession | Hydraulic engineer |
Mario Domingo Barletta (born 30 December 1953) is an Argentine hydraulic engineer and politician. He served as mayor ofSanta Fe, Argentina from 2007 to 2011,[1][2] and was elected President of theRadical Civic Union (UCR) in 2011. Since 2021, he has been aNational Deputy.
Barletta was born in Santa Fe. He enrolled at theNational University of the Littoral (UNL) and graduated with a degree inHydraulic Engineering in 1978. He later took postgraduate courses in theUnited States (at the universities ofIllinois andColumbia). He has a Master of Social Sciences from FLACSO (theLatin American Social Sciences Institute).
Barletta was a professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Hydrical Sciences, and guest professor in other universities. He worked in his field at the Centro Regional Litoral and in the water departments of the provincial governments ofEntre Ríos, Santa Fe,Chaco,Misiones andRío Negro.[3]
He directed the Department of General and Applied Hydrology of the UNL, and was the firstdean of his faculty. He served as Secretary of Scientific Investigation and Secretary General of UNL. On 22 February 2000 the University Assembly elected himrector, in order to complete the term of Hugo Storero (who had resigned to become aNational Deputy). He presided the National Inter-University Council until October 2000, and was part of the Directorship of CONICET (theNational Scientific and Technical Research Council), in representation of public and private universities.
He was reelected as rector of the UNL in November 2005, and served from March 2006 until December 2007, when he left to become mayor of Santa Fe.[4]
Barletta ran for the office of Mayor of Santa Fe City on the election of 2 September 2007, representing theProgressive, Civic and Social Front (the same coalition which took theSocialistHermes Binner to the governor's seat). He came first in the race (32.64% of the vote), with a slight difference of about 3,000 votes, ahead of theJusticialist/Front for Victory candidate Martín Balbarrey (the former mayor, running for reelection), and the independent Peronist candidate Oscar Martínez.[5]
Among his first government measures, Barletta announced the start of a permanent internalaudit of the municipality's finances, and declared a "hydrical emergency", to deal swiftly with the vulnerable state of the city facing large amounts of rainfall. Santa Fe City, located in low terrain besides two large rivers, suffered a largeflood in 2003, and anotherserious flood during the autumn 2007 season.
Days after completing his term as Mayor of Santa Fe, Barletta was elected President of the National Committee of theRadical Civic Union (UCR) in December 2011 as a consensus candidate.[6]
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