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Jorge Obeid
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Jorge Alberto Obeid (born 24 November 1947) is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, current governor of Santa Fe Province.
Obeid was born in Diamante, Entre Rios but moved to Santa Fe to train as a chemical engineer. He was a young Peronist activist but was forced to leave the country during the military government. He became a member of the legislative council of Santa Fe and, as the President of the Council, became the mayor when the incumbent resigned.
Obeid became governor of the province for the first time in 1995, winning an election that was fraught with problems, including a breakdown in the computer system counting the ballots that forced a recount to be done by hand. Obeid was declared the winner after 37 days, after charges of fraud and manipulation. He was backed by outgoing governor Carlos Reutemann and Buenos Aires Province governor Eduardo Duhalde and defeated the candidate of President Carlos Menem. He served until 1999, when former governor Reutemann then served for a second four-year term.
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