22 Facts About Hermes Binner

Hermes Juan Binner was an Argentine physician and politician who served as Governor of Santa Fe from 2007 to 2011.

Hermes Binner was previously a member of parliament of the Civic and Social Progressive Front, a Santa Fe party coalition including the Socialist Party, the Radical Civic Union and other left-wing parties, since the parliamentary elections of October 23,2005.

Hermes Binner was born and raised in Rafaela, Santa Fe Province, to a Swiss Argentine family.

Hermes Binner attended primary school at St Joseph's College, and then attended high school at the Rafaela National College, where he began his political activity through participation in the Student Center.

Hermes Binner moved to Rosario to study Medicine at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario.

Hermes Binner graduated in 1970 and continued his militant activism as a Graduate Council Member at the University, as well as working as a union member at the Rosario Medical Association and the Physicians' College.

Guillermo Estevez Boero and Hermes Binner co-founded the Popular Socialist Party in Buenos Aires on April 23,1972, a merger of the Argentine Socialist Party with other left-wing groups.

Hermes Binner continued exercising his profession, taking up specialties in anesthesiology and occupational medicine, and starting studies in the field of public health.

Hermes Binner was elected Mayor of Rosario in 1995 and then re-elected in 1999, ending his second four-year term in 2003.

Hermes Binner was candidate to the governorship of the province of Santa Fe, obtaining a larger percentage of the popular vote than any of the other candidates, but the controversial voting system in place at the time caused the Socialist Party to lose the election to the Peronist Party.

Hermes Binner was succeeded in office by one of his former municipal officials, Miguel Lifschitz, who continued and developed the policies outlined above, and was re-elected in 2007.

Hermes Binner was a member of the National Table of the Socialist Party and the Secretary General of the Santa Fe Federation for the same.

Hermes Binner was the director of the Rosario's Municipal and Provincial Studies Center, an institution for political and academic formation with professionals of diverse disciplines debating current issues and policies.

Hermes Binner was a candidate for a seat in the National Chamber of Deputies for the Progressive, Civic and Social Front, a Santa Fe political coalition in the parliamentary elections of October 23,2005.

Hermes Binner ran for governor of Santa Fe in 2007, with former Santa Fe City federal prosecutor Griselda Tessio as vice-governor, against former chancellor and national deputy for Buenos Aires City Rafael Bielsa, who was chosen in the primaries by the Justicialist Front for Victory.

Hermes Binner was supported by the left-wing opposition leader Elisa Carrio, head of the ARI.

Hermes Binner won the provincial election of September 2,2007 by a significant margin over Bielsa.

Hermes Binner was sworn in on December 11, becoming the first Socialist governor in the history of Argentina, and the first non-Peronist to rule Santa Fe since 1983.

Hermes Binner joined UCR Congressman Ricardo Alfonsin in the Civic and Social Agreement during the early stages of the 2011 general election campaign.

Hermes Binner nominated Cordoba Province Senator Norma Morandini as his running mate on their Progressive Front ticket.

Hermes Binner was admitted to a geriatric hospital in 2019, due to his Alzheimer's and kidney problems.

Hermes Binner died there from pneumonia on June 26,2020, at the age of 77.