13 Facts About Alberto Balestrini

Alberto Edgardo Balestrini was an Argentine lawyer and politician of the Justicialist Party.

Alberto Balestrini's career was cut short by a debilitating stroke in April 2010, following which he retired from politics in order to recover.

Alberto Balestrini was born on 9 March 1947 in Buenos Aires.

Alberto Balestrini's father was a Peronist military officer who was forced into exile in 1955 following the coup of the Revolucion Libertadora and the ensuing dictatorship; for this reason, Balestrini spent part of his childhood in Chile.

Alberto Balestrini studied magistracy at the Instituto Padre Elizalde in Ciudadela.

When Pierri backed Carlos Menem's re-election campaign in 1999 Alberto Balestrini backed Eduardo Duhalde in the Justicialist Party primaries.

Alberto Balestrini ran against Alliance candidate Lidia "Pinky" Satragno; upon his victory, the Justicialist Party continued its streak as the sole ruling party in the district since 1983.

Toward the end of the 1990s, Alberto Balestrini formed, alongside Julio Alak and Juan Jose Alvarez, a trio of promising young Justicialist politicians known as the "Three Musketeers".

Alberto Balestrini maintained amicable relations with the Piquetero leaders Juan Carlos Alderete and Luis D'Elia.

In December 2008, Alberto Balestrini was elected as the new president of the Buenos Aires Province chapter of the Justicialist Party.

On 7 April 2010, Alberto Balestrini suffered a debilitating stroke and was interned at the Policlinico General San Martin in La Plata.

In 2013, he was honored with the naming of a maternity and pediatric hospital, the Dr Alberto Balestrini Hospital, located in La Matanza.

Alberto Balestrini died in the early morning of 11 April 2017, in a private clinic in Banfield.