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Eduardo Camaño
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Minister of Government of Buenos Aires Province
In office
20 March 2009 – 10 December 2011
Governor Daniel Scioli
Preceded by Alberto Pérez
Succeeded by Cristina Álvarez Rodríguez
President of the Chamber of Deputies in exercise of the Executive Branch
In office
31 December 2001 – 2 January 2002
Preceded by Adolfo Rodríguez Saá (as President)
Succeeded by Eduardo Duhalde (as President)
President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
5 December 2001 – 6 December 2005
Preceded by Rafael Pascual
Succeeded by Alberto Balestrini
National Deputy
In office
10 December 1991 – 10 December 2007
Constituency Buenos Aires Province
Mayor of Quilmes
In office
10 December 1987 – 10 December 1991
Preceded by Eduardo Vides
Succeeded by Aníbal Fernández
Personal details
Born (1946-06-17) 17 June 1946 (age 78)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Political party Justicialist
Profession Lawyer
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Eduardo Oscar Camaño ((Spanish pronunciation: [eˈðwaɾðo kaˈmaɲo]; born 17 June 1946) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He was in charge of the executive branch in a caretaker capacity, effectively acting as president, for two days between 31 December 2001, and 1 January 2002.

Political career

Camaño was Mayor of Quilmes Partido from 1987 to 1991. Until 2007 he sat in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies as a deputy elected in Buenos Aires Province. He served as majority leader of the lower house of the Argentine Congress from 2001, hence bringing him to the position of acting president. He became head of the executive branch because of the resignations of interim President Adolfo Rodríguez Saá and provisional Senate president Ramón Puerta.

In recent years he sat in the Federal Peronist block allied to Eduardo Duhalde, largely in opposition to then President Néstor Kirchner. In 2007, Camaño stood again for deputy, this time heading a list of anti-Kirchner Peronists in support of the presidential bid of dissident Peronist Roberto Lavagna. The list did badly and he faced a recount for the final place in the Chamber for the Province with Ricardo Cuccovillo of the Civic Coalition. Ultimately Cuccovillo was sworn in as deputy and Camaño lost his seat.

Camaño chaired the national council of the Justicialist Party, making him de facto party leader, alongside supporters of both Duhalde and Kirchner. In 2008, when Kirchner assumed the leadership of the Justicialist Party, Camaño was offered an executive position, the only ally of Lavagna to do so, in what had been seen as a chance to reconcile the different wings of Peronism.

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