Alberto Pierri | |
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| National Deputy | |
| In office 10 December 1985 –10 December 2001 | |
| Constituency | Buenos Aires |
| President of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 10 December 1989 –10 December 1999 | |
| Preceded by | Leopoldo Moreau |
| Succeeded by | Rafael Pascual |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1948 (age 76–77) Buenos Aires,Argentina |
| Political party | Justicialist Party |
Alberto Reinaldo Pierri (born 1948) is an Argentine businessman and former politician of the Justicialist Party. Pierri is the owner and managing director of Telecentro,one of Argentina's largest communications company. [1] He served as a member of the National Chamber of Deputies elected in Buenos Aires Province during 16 years,and presided the Chamber from 1989 to 1999 –being the longest-serving president of the Chamber of Deputies since the restoration of Argentine democracy in 1983. [2] [3]
His tenure as president of the Chamber of Deputies was marred by a number of controversies,such as the infamous "diputrucho" incident,where a man who was not an elected member of Congress voted in place of an absent deputy. [4] He was the sponsor of the bill that mandated the creation of the National University of La Matanza in 1989. [5]
In 2003,he unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Buenos Aires Province as part of the Front for Loyalty,the electoral coalition backing Carlos Menem in that year's presidential election. [6]
