17 Facts About Luis Juez

Luis Alberto Juez was born on 13 September 1963 and is an Argentine politician who served as Mayor of the City of Cordoba and was later elected to the Senate.

Luis Juez was born in Cordoba, Argentina, to Adela Losada, the daughter of Spanish Argentine immigrants from A Coruna, and Gabriel Juez, the son of Arab Argentine immigrants from Syria.

Luis Juez married the former Victoria Corte in 1992, and they had four children.

Luis Juez was appointed to the Provincial Legislature in 1994 to fill a vacancy, and in 1995, was elected on a party list headed by fellow Peronist Jose Manuel de la Sota.

Luis Juez ran for the office of Mayor of Cordoba in 1998; but he was defeated in the Justicialist Party primaries by German Kammerath, who had received de la Sota's endorsement.

De la Sota was elected Governor in 1999, and Luis Juez was appointed Director of the Highway Bureau.

Luis Juez's alliance with de la Sota ended, though the latter recognized their 20-year friendship by allowing Juez to step down without formally accepting a resignation, which left Juez's health benefits intact; Juez's youngest daughter had been born premature, and required six months' hospitalization.

Luis Juez left the Justicialist Party and established the Partido Nuevo.

Luis Juez was elected Mayor of Cordoba in 2003, defeating Governor de la Sota's nominee, Alfredo Keegan, by 30 points.

Luis Juez became a leading figure in the "transversal" trend among key center-left elected officials who, without belonging to the Front for Victory of President Nestor Kirchner, became his allies.

Luis Juez declined to run for a second term in 2007, and instead became a candidate for governor.

Luis Juez again faced a de la Sota nominee, Vice Governor Juan Schiaretti, as well as UCR candidate Mario Negri, and organized a left-leaning Civic and Social Front with the support of the Broad Front, the Socialist Party and others.

Luis Juez alleged electoral fraud when in a protracted, 16-hour ballot machine-counting process at the Cordoba Central Post Office from which the press was barred, overloaded circuit breakers shorted numerous times.

Luis Juez appealed the results, requesting a recount in court for all 6,152 precincts.

Running, as Luis Juez did in 2007, against Peronist and UCR opposition, the Civic Front Alliance prevailed by a narrow margin, sending Luis Juez and fellow Civic Front candidate Norma Morandini to the Senate; both joined the Broad Progressive Front ahead of the 2011 campaign season.

Luis Juez ran again for Governor of Cordoba in the 2011 provincial elections.

Luis Juez was defeated by his erstwhile boss and ally, former Governor de la Sota.