Jorge Domínguez (politician)

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Jorge Domínguez (20 March 1945 – 24 August 2022) was an Argentine politician. He was a member of the Justicialist Party. He was appointed Mayor of Buenos Aires in 1994. When the mayoral office later became an elected office, he ran for the mayoral elections in 1996, and lost to Fernando de la Rúa.[1] He later was the Minister of Defense for President Carlos Menem from 1996 to 1999. Domínguez was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Domínguez died on 24 August 2022 at a hospital in Buenos Aires from pneumonia at the age of 77.[2]

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  1. Graciela Guadalupe (1 July 1996). "De la Rúa en toda la Capital" [De la Rua in all the Capital] (in Spanish). La Nación. Archived from the original on 1 March 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  2. Murió Jorge Domínguez, ex ministro de Defensa y último intendente de la ciudad de Buenos Aires (in Spanish)