{{Short description|Argentine politician (1944–2010)}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Luz María Sapag | image = File:Luz Maria Sapag.jpg | caption = Luz María Sapag | office = Mayor of [[San Martín de los Andes]] | term_start = 10 December 2007 | term_end = 7 July 2010 | predecessor = Jorge Carro | successor = Cristina Frugoni | term_start1 = 10 December 1991 | term_end1 = 10 December 1999 | office2 = [[Argentine Senate|National Senator]] | term_start2 = 10 December 2001 | term_end2 = 10 December 2007 | constituency2 = [[Neuquén Province|Neuquén]] | office3 = [[Legislature of Neuquén|Provincial Legislator of Neuquén]] | term_start3 = 10 December 1999 | term_end3 = 10 December 2001 | birth_name = Luz María Sapag | birth_date = {{Birth date|1944|6|15|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Cutral Có]], Neuquén, Argentina | death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|6|7|1944|5|15|df=yes}} | death_place = San Martín de los Andes, Argentina | party = [[Neuquén People's Movement]] | spouse = | children = [[Carmen Lucila Crexell]] | alma_mater = | signature = }}
'''Luz María Sapag''' (15 June 1944 – 7 July 2010) was an [[Argentina|Argentine]] politician, Mayor of the city of [[San Martín de los Andes]] and formerly a [[Argentine Senate|Senator]] representing the [[Neuquén Province]] under the aegis of the [[Neuquino People's Movement]].
Sapag was born in [[Cutral Có]], Neuquén. She was a member of the influential [[Arab Argentine]] Sapag family – daughter of [[Elías Sapag]], a senator; niece of [[Felipe Sapag]], five-time governor of Neuquén; and sister to [[Jorge Sapag]], governor of Neuquén from 2007.<ref>[http://www.sapag.com.ar/ver.php?id=9 Sapag family history] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311033146/http://www.sapag.com.ar/ver.php?id=9|date=11 March 2007}}</ref>
She became secretary of government of the municipality of [[San Martín de los Andes]] in 1987, and in 1991 became Mayor of the city. She was re-elected in 1995, and in 1999 was elected to the Provincial Legislature.
Luz Sapag was elected to the Senate in 2001, and later served as president of the Environmental Committee. In June 2006, prosecutors in Neuquén asked the [[Argentine Congress]] to lift her immunity so that she could face trial for abuse of office whilst Mayor of San Martín de los Andes.<ref>{{cite web |date=28 June 2006 |title=La Justicia solicitó al Congreso el desafuero de la senadora Luz Sapag |url=http://www.rionegro.com.ar/diario/2006/06/28/20066r28f18.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311162635/http://www.rionegro.com.ar/diario/2006/06/28/20066r28f18.php |archive-date=11 March 2007 |website=www.rionegro.com.ar}} </ref>
In June 2007 she was re-elected Mayor of San Martín de los Andes and stepped down from the Senate.<ref>{{cite web |date=4 June 2007 |title=ELECCIONES EN NEUQUEN: Luz Sapag vuelve a la intendencia de San Martín |url=http://www.rionegro.com.ar/diario/2007/06/04/20076p04s30.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071031051058/http://www.rionegro.com.ar/diario/2007/06/04/20076p04s30.php |archive-date=31 October 2007 |website=www.rionegro.com.ar}} </ref>
Sapag died in a [[road accident]] in San Martín de los Andes in the morning of 7 July 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 July 2010 |title=En un accidente muere Luz Sapag, la intendenta de San Martín de los Andes |url=http://www.mdzol.com/mdz/nota/222031-En-un-accidente-muere-Luz-Sapag-la-intendenta-de-San-Martin-de-los-Andes/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728004601/http://www.mdzol.com/mdz/nota/222031-En-un-accidente-muere-Luz-Sapag-la-intendenta-de-San-Martin-de-los-Andes/ |archive-date=28 July 2011 |access-date=8 July 2010 |website=MDZ Online}}</ref>
One of Sapag's daughters, [[Carmen Lucila Crexell]], went on to be elected to the Argentine Senate for Neuquén as well.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sanmartinadiario.com.ar/actualidad/18842-crexell-llego-a-senadora-por-ser-la-hija-de-luz-sapag.html|work=San Martín a Diario|title="Crexell llegó a Senadora por ser la hija de Luz Sapag"|date=1 November 2017|access-date=19 July 2021|language=es}}</ref>
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080218193007/http://sapag.senado.gov.ar/ Senate profile] (Spanish)
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Argentine national senators, 2001–2003}} {{Argentine national senators, 2003–2005}} {{Argentine national senators, 2005–2007}}
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