Celso Jaque

{{Short description|Argentine politician}} {{BLP sources|date=January 2008}} {{Infobox officeholder |name= Celso Jaque |image= Celso Jaque.jpg |caption= |order=<nowiki/> |office= Argentine Ambassador to Colombia |term_start= December 28, 2011 |term_end= January 8, 2016 |predecessor= [[Martin Balza]] |successor= Marcelo Stubrin |office2= [[Governor of Mendoza]] |term_start2= December 10, 2007 |term_end2= December 9, 2011 |predecessor2= [[Julio Cobos]] |successor2= [[Francisco Pérez (governor)|Francisco Pérez]] |office3= [[Argentine Senate|National Senator]] |constituency=[[Mendoza Province|Mendoza]] |term_start3= December 10, 2003 |term_end3= December 10, 2007 |successor3=[[Mónica Troadello]] |birth_date= {{birth date and age|1960|9|24}} |birth_place= [[Malargüe]], [[Mendoza Province|Mendoza]] |profession= Public accountant |party= [[Justicialist Party]]<br>[[Front for Victory]] |footnotes= }} '''Celso Alejandro Jaque''' (born September 24, 1960) is an [[Argentina|Argentine]] [[Justicialist Party]] (PJ) politician, former Argentine Ambassador to Colombia, former governor of [[Mendoza Province]] and a former [[Argentine Senate|senator]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ecolo.cancilleria.gov.ar/es/content/breve-cv-del-embajador |title=Breve CV del Embajador |website=Embajada en República de Colombia |publisher=Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto (Argentina) |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821083854/http://ecolo.cancilleria.gov.ar/es/content/breve-cv-del-embajador |archive-date=2017-08-21 |access-date=2026-01-14 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Born in [[Malargüe]], Mendoza, Jaque graduated as an accountant at the [[National University of Cuyo]]. He joined the Justicialists in 1983, and was elected to the Provincial Legislature in 1991, serving until 1995, when he was elected Mayor of Malargüe. He was re-elected in 1999 and in 2003, was elected to the [[Argentine Senate]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mendoza.gov.ar/perfil_del_gobernador.html |title=Perfil del Gobernador – Celso Jaque |website=Gobierno de Mendoza |publisher=Gobierno de la Provincia de Mendoza |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080825025814/http://www.mendoza.gov.ar/perfil_del_gobernador.html |archive-date=2008-08-25 |access-date=2026-01-14 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Jaque chaired the [[Federal revenue sharing]] committee until 2005, and the Infrastructure committee until 2007. He was elected Governor of Mendoza in October 2007, replacing [[Julio Cobos]], who was elected [[Vice President of Argentina]]. The governor of the fourth most important district in Argentina, Jaque's support was courted by the faction of the Justicialist Party opposed to [[Kirchnerism]]. He remained an ally, however, of the embattled President [[Cristina Kirchner]], who lost the support of Vice President Cobos and most Mendoza Justicialists during the [[2008 Argentine government conflict with the agricultural sector]].<ref>[http://www.mdzol.com/mdz/nota/91688/ ''MDZ Online''. Solá: "Celso Jaque le tiene miedo a Kirchner"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728004427/http://www.mdzol.com/mdz/nota/91688/ |date=2011-07-28 }} {{in lang|es}}</ref>

== External links == * {{in lang|es}} [http://www.mendoza.gov.ar/ Mendoza Province]

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