Eduardo Brizuela del Moral

Eduardo Brizuela del Moral
Governor of Catamarca
In office December 10, 2003 – December 9, 2011
Lieutenant	Hernán Colombo
Preceded by	Oscar Castillo
Succeeded by	Lucía Corpacci
National Senator
In office December 10, 2001 – December 10, 2003
Constituency	Catamarca
Mayor of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca
In office December 10, 1991 – December 10, 2001
Preceded by	Juan Carlos Fussi
Succeeded by	Humberto Rebellato
Personal details
Born	Eduardo Segundo Brizuela del Moral (1944-08-20) 20 August 1944 San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca
Political party	Radical Civic Union
Other political affiliations	Civic and Social Front of Catamarca
Profession	Agronomist

Eduardo Segundo Brizuela del Moral (born August 20, 1944) is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician. He was governor of Catamarca Province from 2003 to 2011, heading the Civic and Social Front of Catamarca.

Life

Eduardo Brizuela was born in San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca and studied agronomy at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, from which he graduated in 1972. He became an academic in the field of topography and was named a member of the Provincial Agronomists Council, later heading the Bureau of Surveyors of Catamarca Province and of its capital. In 1986 he became rector of the Universidad Nacional de Catamarca, serving until 1991.

Politics

Brizuela was elected Mayor of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca in 1991. He was re-elected in 1995, and again in 1999. He served as vice-president of the Argentine Federation of Municipalities from 1998 to 2000. In 2001, he was elected to the Argentine Senate representing his home province, serving until the gubernatorial election in 2003.

Eduardo Brizuela became a "K Radical," a UCR supporter of President Néstor Kirchner, and endorsed Kirchner in the 2007 elections. He subsequently received the endorsement of Jorge Sobisch's conservative Movement of the United Provinces, in his own, successful re-election bid for governor. Following his re-election, Brizuela (and most K Radicals) broke with Kirchnerism as a result of the 2008 Argentine government conflict with the agricultural sector.

Brizuela ran for a third term as governor in the 2011 elections, being defeated by Senator Lucía Corpacci of the Kirchnerist Front for Victory by 83,711 votes over 76,627.

External links

• Profile, Catamarca government