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Hermes Binner

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Hermes Juan Binner is an Argentine medical doctor and a politician. He is the governor of Santa Fe since 11 December 2007. Binner ya es el primer gobernador socialista del pais. Rosario3, 11 December 2007. Binner is the first Socialist to become the governor of an Argentine province, and the first non-Justicialist to rule Santa Fe since 1983. Gano Binner y el socialismo saco al PJ de la Gobernacion de Santa Fe, Clarin, 3 September 2007

Binner was previously a Deputy 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 23 October 2005.

Binner spent his childhood and teenage years in Rafaela. There he went to primary school at St. Joseph's College, and then attended high school at Rafaela's National College, where he began his political activity through participation in the Student Center. At the time (1958) the need for public free non-religious education was being hotly debated in Argentina. During those days Binner heard about Guillermo Estevez Boero, who was to become his teacher and guide into the socialist movement.