11 Facts About Carlos Verna

Carlos Alberto Verna was born on 8 May 1946 and is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician who was governor of La Pampa Province twice, from 2003 to 2007 and from 2015 to 2019.

Carlos Verna was a National Senator for La Pampa for two terms, and served as intendente of General Pico.

Carlos Verna won the 2003 gubernatorial election with the support of President Carlos Menem, against the candidate of the Front for Victory faction of the Justicialist Party, Nestor Ahuad.

Carlos Verna was not close to fellow Peronist President Nestor Kirchner, and was likely to be challenged by his own party if he attempted to be re-elected in 2007.

Carlos Verna was, moreover, implicated in the scandal concerning public SIDE funds diverted to senators by the government of Fernando de la Rua for their support of a labor law flexibilization bill in 2000.

Consequently, Carlos Verna declared he would not seek political office following the end of his term in 2007, and he left office in December 2007.

Carlos Verna was returned to his former seat in the Senate in 2009; he campaigned with markedly anti-Kirchnerist rhetoric in the heavily agrarian province.

Carlos Verna ran for a new term as governor of La Pampa in 2015.

Carlos Verna first defeated the Kirchnerite Fabian Bruna, proposed by the governor Oscar Jorge for the primary elections.

Carlos Verna announced in September 2018 that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Carlos Verna said that he would not run for reelection in 2019 and leave politics.