Neuquén People's Movement

The Neuquén People's Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Popular Neuquino, MPN) is a peronist provincial political party in the province of Neuquén, Argentina.

Neuquén People's Movement

Movimiento Popular Neuquino
AbbreviationMPN
PresidentOmar Gutiérrez
General SecretarySilvia Noemi De Otaño
Vice PresidentLuis Felipe Sapag
TreasurerMarcelo Humberto Berenguer
FounderFelipe Sapag
Elías Sapag
Amado Sapag
Founded4 June 1961
HeadquartersNeuquén, Argentina
IdeologyRegionalism
Neo Peronism
Third Way
Formerly:
Federal Peronism (with Sobisch)[1]
Political positionCentre
Formerly:
Center-right[2]
Seats in the Chamber of Deputies
1 / 257
Seats in the Senate
2 / 72
Seats in the Legislature of Neuquén
12 / 35
Website
www.movimientopopularneuquino.org

The party was founded by, amongst others, Carlos Sobisch, Elías Sapag, Felipe Sapag and his brothers, Peronists who had been discriminated against by the military government. It began on 4 June 1961 and has held the Neuquén governorship and many of the local and national legislative positions since then.

At the legislative elections of 23 October 2005 the party won two of the 127 elected national deputies (out of 257). It has one of the three Neuquén senators in the Argentine Senate – Horacio Lores, as well as the governor of Neuquén, Jorge Sapag, son of Elías Sapag. Luz Sapag, Elías' daughter, is Mayor of San Martín de los Andes and a former senator.

Jorge Sobisch, son of Carlos Sobisch, was a candidate for the presidency of Argentina at the 2007 elections, having been a high-profile governor of Neuquén. Sobisch resigned the presidency of the MPN in December 2007.[3][4] The party has seen internal rivalry between the Sapag and Sobisch families, along a left-right political split.

References
  1. La Nación (in Spanish)
  2. La Nación (in Spanish)
  3. "Página/12 :: Ultimas Noticias :: Sobisch renunció a la presidencia del MPN". Pagina12.com.ar. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2008-01-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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