11 Facts About Claudio Poggi

Claudio Javier Poggi was born on 7 October 1963 and is an Argentine accountant and peronist politician.

Claudio Poggi has sat on both chambers of the Argentine Congress as a representative from San Luis: from 2017 to 2021, he sat in the Argentine Senate, and he was a National Deputy from 2003 to 2009 and later from 2019 to 2023.

Claudio Poggi enrolled at the National University of Rio Cuarto, earning a degree in Accountancy.

Claudio Poggi married Sandra Correa, and they had two children.

Claudio Poggi then served in a managerial capacity at the local Acindar steel mill.

Claudio Poggi served as Undersecretary of Interministerial Coordination during Adolfo Rodriguez Saa's brief turn as interim President appointed on an emergency basis by Congress in December 2001.

Claudio Poggi returned to San Luis as Minister of Economy and Public Works for Governor Alicia Lemme, and in 2003 was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies.

Claudio Poggi concomitantly served as Minister of Public Works and Tourism for Lemme's successor, Governor Alberto Rodriguez Saa.

Claudio Poggi was elected to the San Luis Provincial Legislature in 2009, serving as the chamber's president until July 2010, when he accepted an appointment as Head of the Cabinet of Ministers in Rodriguez Saa's administration.

Claudio Poggi was endorsed by the governor to run as his successor in 2011 on the Federal Commitment ticket, a center-right faction of the Justicialist Party whose strength is greatest in San Luis.

Claudio Poggi's victory represented the eighth consecutive election won by a Rodriguez Saa or close ally since democracy was restored in Argentina in 1983; Poggi stressed his wish to maintain continuity in the province, one of Argentina's fastest growing, citing the Rodriguez Saa administrations as "models to follow".