Luis Petcoff Naidenoff

Luis Carlos Petcoff Naidenoff (born July 13, 1967) is an Argentine lawyer and politician. He is National Senator and is the leader of the opposition political coalition Juntos por el Cambio in the Senate.

Luis Petcoff Naidenoff
Argentine Senator
from Formosa Province
Assumed office
10 December 2005
Personal details
Born (1967-07-13) July 13, 1967
El Colorado, Formosa, Argentina
Political partyRadical Civic Union
Other political
affiliations		Cambiemos
Spouse(s)Cinthya Sonaridio
Alma materNational University of the Northeast
ProfessionLawyer

Born in rural El Colorado, Petcoff Naidenoff studied in El Colorado and Corrientes, and graduated as a lawyer at the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (UNNE). He worked as a lawyer in Formosa. He served as President of the Association of Young Lawyers 1996–98.

Petcoff Naidenoff was elected as a Formosa city councillor in 1999 and headed the UCR caucus, serving until 2003. He was elected to the Argentine Senate in 2005. He was the UCR candidate for Governor of Formosa in 2007, with Ana Elena Caligaris as his running mate; he lost to Gildo Insfrán.[1] Petcoff was elected president of the UCR caucus in the Senate in 2011.

Personal life

Petcoff Naidenoff is of Bulgarian descent.[2] He was married to Cinthya Sonaridio, a fellow graduate of UNNE; they had a daughter and a son. On 18 June, 2018, his wife Cinthya and their son were found dead in their home in Formosa.[3] Initial reports suggested they had succumbed to monoxide poisoning.

National Senator

In 2005 he was elected National Senator for the Province of Formosa and re-elected in 2011 and 2017. He also appeared as a candidate for governor of Formosa in 2007 and 2015, losing both times against Gildo Insfrán, who has governed the province since 1995.

Currently it integrates 15 commissions, being one of the legislators with greater participation in the commissions of the Chamber.

Since 2015 he is the leader of Cambiemos in the Senate of the Nation.

Since its assumption, it presented 262 Draft Law, in addition to numerous communication and declaration projects.

He was recognized with the Parliamentary Award for his legislative activity in the years 2009 and 2016.

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References
  1. Cómodo triunfo de Insfrán en Formosa Archived 2007-11-28 at the Wayback Machine, Ambito Financiero, accessed 26 May 2008.
  2. Ташев, Спас (2010-09-16). "Спас Ташев: Чрез лицата от български произход в Латинска Америка, могат да се засилят контактите с България и ЕС като цяло" (in Bulgarian). Министерство на външните работи на Република България. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
  3. "Encontraron muertos a la ex esposa y a un hijo del senador radical Luis Naidenoff". Clarín (in Spanish). 18 June 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2018.


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