{{Short description|Argentine politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Eduardo Menem.png | caption = Menem in 1997 | office = [[Argentine Senate|National Senator]] | term_start = 10 December 1983 | term_end = 9 December 2005 | constituency = [[La Rioja Province, Argentina|La Rioja]] | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1938|4|30|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Anillaco]], [[La Rioja Province (Argentina)|La Rioja]], Argentina | party = [[Justicialist Party]] | successor = [[Carlos Menem]] | profession = Lawyer | relatives = [[Carlos Menem]] (brother) | children = [[Martín Menem]] | signature = Firma de Eduardo Menem.jpg }} '''Eduardo Menem''' (born 30 April 1938) is an Argentine [[Justicialist Party]] politician. He is a former [[Argentine Senate|Senator]] and the brother of former President [[Carlos Menem]].
Born to a family of [[Syrians|Syrian]] origin in [[Anillaco]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Carlos Menem {{!}} Biography & Facts|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carlos-Menem|access-date=2021-03-12|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref> Menem was elected Senator for La Rioja Province for four terms (1983-1989, 1989–1995, 1995–2001, 2001-2005). He served as provisional President of the Senate between 1989 and 1999, holding executive power on many occasions during trips abroad by the President, in the absence of a vice-President after the resignation of [[Eduardo Duhalde]]. He also worked as president of the Constitutional Assembly that enacted the [[1994 amendment of the Argentine Constitution]].
After leaving the Congress, he joined the internal line of the PJ that opposes Kirchnerism.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/923744 |title=Con Menem a la cabeza, el PJ opositor desafió a Kirchner |access-date=2010-05-15 |archive-date=2016-03-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318053744/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/923744-con-menem-a-la-cabeza-el-pj-opositor-desafio-a-kirchner |url-status=dead }}</ref> Despite not being part of the Congress, he supported the actions of [[Julio Cobos]] in 2010, which were criticized by Néstor and Cristina Kirchner.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1255629 |title=Eduardo Menem criticó la actitud de su hermano en el Senado |access-date=2010-05-15 |archive-date=2016-03-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306015059/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1255629-eduardo-menem-critico-la-actitud-de-su-hermano-en-el-senado |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Books== * "Nueve años en el Congreso de la Nación" ({{langx|en|Nine years in the National Congress}}), 1992 * "La Constitución reformada" ({{langx|en|The Constitution amended}}), 1994 * "Los Derechos de la mujer" ({{langx|en|Women's rights}}), 2005
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==External links== {{Commons category}}
* [http://www.eduardomenem.org/ Official site] {{in lang|es}}
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