12 Facts About Eduardo Fellner

Eduardo Alfredo Fellner was born on 16 June 1954 and is an Argentine Peronist politician.

Eduardo Fellner was President of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and governor of Jujuy Province for two terms.

The young Eduardo Fellner later relocated to Tucuman, where he earned a juris doctor at the Saint Thomas Aquinas University of the North.

Eduardo Fellner returned to Jujuy in 1983, and was appointed Solicitor General of the province, later becoming District Attorney.

Eduardo Fellner returned to Jujuy and was elected to the Provincial Legislature.

Eduardo Fellner was elected in his own right in 1999, and re-elected in 2003.

Eduardo Fellner became the national leader of the Justicialist Party in 2004, chairing its national council.

Eduardo Fellner resigned the same year amid fallout from a row between Kirchnerists, to whom Fellner was loyal, and provincial party leaders.

Eduardo Fellner attempted to change the provincial constitution ahead of the 2007 election so that he could stand for re-election for a third full term.

Eduardo Fellner later stood for election to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, and was sworn in during December 2007.

Eduardo Fellner was elected as President of the Chamber, and was only the second chamber president to not be from Buenos Aires Province; he was re-elected to the post in 2009.

Eduardo Fellner was nominated as the Front for Victory candidate for Governor of Jujuy in 2011.