Miguel Lifschitz
Roberto Miguel Lifschitz was an Argentine politician and civil engineer of the Socialist Party who was Governor of Santa Fe Province from 2015 to 2019. Prior to that, he was intendente of Rosario, the largest city in the province and the third largest in Argentina, from 2003 to 2011. He also served as Provincial Senator of Santa Fe from 2011 to 2015. He last served as President of the Chamber of Deputies of Santa Fe, a position he held from 2019 until his death in 2021.
Career
Lifschitz earned his degree at the Engineering Faculty of the National University of Rosario in 1979, and worked in the private sector until 1989, when he became Director-General of the Public Housing Service of the city of Rosario, under the Socialist Party (Argentina)|socialist] administration of Héctor Cavallero.He continued working in various public offices, as Municipal Secretary-General, Public Services' Secretary and General Cabinet Coordinator for the Municipality of Rosario, between June and December 2003, under the administration of Hermes Binner.
Lifschitz ran for Mayor of Rosario and was elected in the provincial elections of 7 September 2003 for the period 2003–2007. In 2006 he began acknowledging he could run for re-election. In March 2007, a survey showed that Lifschitz would win by a wide margin over any of the other major prospective candidates.
Lifschitz competed in the primaries of the Progressive, Civic and Social Front, on 1 July 2007, against Carlos Comi ; he obtained around 90% of the vote. In the main election of 2 September 2007, he won his re-election for the period 2007–2011 by a landslide over his closest competitor, former Socialist mayor Héctor Cavallero.
In the elections of 14 June 2015, he was elected as the new governor of the Province of Santa Fe, a position he assumed on 10 December 2015.
After leaving the governor's office he would be elected as a deputy in the provincial legislative elections of June 2019. The victory of the Progressive, Civic and Social Front in these elections caused him to be designated as the new President of the Chamber of Deputies of Santa Fe. Lifschitz would hold this position from 11 December 2019 until his death on 9 May 2021.