{{Short description|Argentine politician (b. 1953)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Jorge Yoma | image = Jorge Yoma.jpg | office = [[Argentine Chamber of Deputies|National Deputy]] | term_start = {{dts|2009|12|10}} | term_end = {{dts|2013|12|10}} | constituency = [[La Rioja Province, Argentina|La Rioja]] | term_start2 = {{dts|1989|12|10}} | term_end2 = {{dts|1993|12|10}} | constituency2 = [[La Rioja Province, Argentina|La Rioja]] | term_start3 = {{dts|1989|07|19}} | term_end3 = {{dts|1989|12|10}} | constituency3 = [[La Rioja Province, Argentina|La Rioja]] | predecessor3 = {{ill|Julio Corzo|es}} | successor3 = Bernardo Eligio Herrera | office4 = Ambassador of Argentina to [[Mexico]] | term_start4 = {{dts|2007|12|10}} | term_end4 = {{dts|2009|12|10}} | predecessor4 = Oscar Guillermo Galie | successor4 = {{ill|Patricia Vaca Narvaja|es}} | office5 = [[List of ambassadors of Argentina to Peru|Ambassador of Argentina to Peru]] | term_start5 = {{dts|2018|05|10}} | term_end5 = {{dts|2019|12|10}} | predecessor5 = Ana María Ramírez | successor5 = [[Carlos Álvarez (Argentine politician)|Carlos Álvarez]] | office6 = [[Argentine Senate|National Senator]] | term_start6 = {{dts|1995|12|10}} | term_end6 = {{dts|2005|12|10}} | constituency6 = [[La Rioja Province, Argentina|La Rioja]] | office7 = [[Council of Magistracy of the Nation|Councilor of Magistracy]] | term_start7 = {{dts|2001|11|12}} | term_end7 = {{dts|2005|11|12}} | appointer7 = [[Argentine Senate|National Senate]] | term_start8 = {{dts|1994|05|30}} | term_end8 = {{dts|1994|08|22}} | appointer8 = [[La Rioja Province, Argentina|La Rioja]] | office9 = [[La Rioja Province, Argentina|Minister of Government and Justice of La Rioja]] | term_start9 = {{dts|1995}} | term_end9 = {{dts|1995}} | governor9 = {{ill|Bernabé Arnaudo|es}} | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|11|10}} | birth_place = [[Chilecito]], Argentina | party = [[:es:Encuentro Republicano Federal|ERF]] (since 2021)<br>[[Justicialist Party]] (until 2021) | alma_mater = [[National University of Córdoba]] | relatives = [[Amira Yoma]] (cousin) }} '''Jorge Raúl Yoma''' (born {{dts|1953|11|10}}) is an [[Argentine]] [[politician]] and [[lawyer]] who served as both a [[Argentine Chamber of Deputies|national deputy]] and [[Argentine Senate|senator]] on various occasions, as well as positions in the [[La Rioja Province, Argentina|province of La Rioja]]. He was Argentine ambassador to [[Mexico]] between 2007 and 2010. In March 2018, he was appointed by President [[Mauricio Macri]] as [[List of ambassadors of Argentina to Peru|Argentine ambassador to Peru]].
==Career== He was twice a National Representative for [[La Rioja Province, Argentina|province of La Rioja]], first between 1989 and 1993, and later between 2009 and 2013. In addition, he was a National Senator for that province between 2001 and 2005. While he held that position, he was a member of the Judicial Council.
In his last stage as a deputy he chaired the committees on Constitutional Affairs of the [[Argentine Chamber of Deputies|Chamber of Deputies of the Nation]], on Constitutional Affairs of the [[Argentine Senate|Honorable Senate of the Nation]] and the Bicameral Commission "City of Buenos Aires".
He was Minister of Government and Justice of La Rioja in 1995.
He was national councilor of the [[Justicialist Party]] (PJ), normalizing controller of the PJ of [[Tucumán Province|Tucumán]] in 1993 and 1994, and president of the National Electoral Board of that party.
He was president of the ''Frente con Todos'' Party of La Rioja and of the ''Lema Riojano por el Trabajo y la Producción'' in La Rioja in 2003.
==Ambassador to Mexico (2007–2009)== Appointed Ambassador to [[Mexico]] in 2007, he moved the Embassy and Consulate General of Argentina from the building where a bank with [[Canada|Canadian]] capital operated. In [[Mexico City]] he organized the "Argentine Week of Historical Recognition of the Mexican People", for which he placed a plaque at the entrance thanking Mexican hospitality during the Argentine exile due to dictatorships.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Ofrecen apoyos a empresarios locales en el Cono Sur |url=https://www.informador.mx/Economia/Ofrecen-apoyos-a-empresarios-locales-en-el-Cono-Sur-20090218-0262.html |last=Taborda |first=Daniel |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221162903/http://www.informador.com.mx/economia/2009/79802/6/ofrecen-apoyos-a-empresarios-locales-en-el-cono-sur.htm |archive-date=2009-02-21 |url-status=live |work=[[El Informador (Mexico)|El Informador de México]]}}</ref>
Months before the 2001 crisis, Senator Jorge Yoma presented a bill to repeal the decrees that established, among other measures, a reduction in the salaries of state employees promoted by the Minister of Labour [[Patricia Bullrich]]. They demanded that the Alliance Government begin a dialogue between the ruling party and the opposition as soon as possible and call for social consultation.<ref>{{Cite news |title=El peronismo prepara su entrada a la mesa del diálogo del Gobierno |url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/2000/00-06/00-06-25/pag04.htm |last=Almirón |first=Fernando |date=2000-06-25 |work=[[Página 12]]}}</ref> Also as senator, Yoma promoted, from the presidency of Constitutional Affairs of the Upper House, the regulations of the Bicameral Commission that will be responsible for endorsing or rejecting the decrees of the Executive and moving forward with a project to regulate decrees of necessity and urgency.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Para descomprimir el Senado |url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/2000/00-06/00-06-29/pag05.htm |date=2000-06-29 |work=[[Página 12]]}}</ref>
===Projects=== In his capacity as deputy and together with [[Diana Conti]], he presented a project to reform the Electoral Code to allow voluntary voting for young people from 16 years of age. Yoma had already promoted a similar initiative when he was a senator in 1997. If the initiative is approved, it would be effective from 2013. "Statistics indicate that around 1,500,000 young people would be added to the electoral roll; about 750,000 each year," Yoma told [[Télam]]. As references he uses countries like [[Brazil]], [[Nicaragua]], [[Cuba]] and [[Ecuador]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=En el kirchnerismo proponen que se vote desde los 16 años |url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1459207-en-el-kirchnerismo-proponen-que-se-vote-desde-los-16-anos |date=2012-05-24 |work=[[La Nación]] |access-date=2023-11-12 |archive-date=2015-07-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705014530/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1459207-en-el-kirchnerismo-proponen-que-se-vote-desde-los-16-anos |url-status=dead }}</ref>
He held the presidency of the Transportation Commission and the Bicameral Commission of Agreements of the Legislative Assembly, the vice-presidency of the Culture and Social Media Commission and was a member of the Environment and Natural Resources commissions.
==Controversies== In mid-2010 he had a clash with the American [[rabbi]] Eli Meir Libersohn, who had purchased 200 thousand hectares of land in Valle Hermoso, west of La Rioja, whom he accused (without naming him) of illicit enrichment and money laundering.<ref>{{Cite news |title=La Rioja: Diputado Yoma denunció lavado de dinero con la compra de tierras • ¿Aludió al Rabino, sin nombrarlo? |url=http://www.noti1.com.ar/despachos.asp?cod_des=4335&ID_Seccion=201 |date=2010-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304124842/http://www.noti1.com.ar/despachos.asp?cod_des=4335&ID_Seccion=201 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |work=Noti 1}}</ref>
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