Gerardo Zamora

Gerardo Zamora
Governor Gerardo Zamora
Governor of Santiago del Estero Province
In office December 10, 2005 – incumbent
Lieutenant	Emilio Rached (2005 — 07) Blanca Porcel (since 2007)
Preceded by	Pablo Lanusse
Mayor of Santiago del Estero
In office 2001–2004
Personal details
Born	1964 Santiago del Estero
Political party	Radical Civic Union
Profession	Lawyer

Gerardo Zamora is an Argentine politician from Santiago del Estero Province. since 2005, and is a member of the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR).

Born in 1964, Zamora was a leading student politician, serving as President of Franja Morada, the UCR student chapter, at the Catholic University of Santiago del Estero and President of the UCR youth wing for two terms. He became a lawyer and continued his political activities.

Elected to the Provincial Legislature in Santiago del Estero in 1991, he served in the post until 1993, and was elected Mayor of the city of Santiago del Estero in 1995. He became a provincial deputy once again in 1997 and served as President of the UCR caucus until 1999. In that year he was elected vice-mayor of Santiago del Estero and took over as Mayor in 2001 when the incumbent resigned. In 2003 he was elected Mayor of the city in his own right with 64% of the vote, serving until 2004.

Zamora has been a key supporter of Peronist Presidents Néstor Kirchner and now Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in UCR ranks, and opposed leading UCR figures' plans to support an opposing candidate to the Kirchners in the 2007 presidential elections. He was elected governor in 2005 on the Civic Front for Santiago ticket, with the support of some Peronists and socialists as well as most Radicals in the province.

From 2005 until 2007, Zamora's vice-governor was Emilio Rached. When Rached was elected to the Argentine Senate in 2007, he was succeeded as vice-governor by Blanca Porcel.

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Preceded by Pablo Lanusse

Governor of Santiago del Estero 2005–present

Incumbent