Ricardo Gómez Diez [SEP] occupation
Ricardo Gómez Diez
Ricardo Gómez Diez (born March 4, 1949) is an Argentine politician. He was until 2007 a senator for Salta Province for the Salta Renewal Party (PRS) and was vice-presidential candidate of the national Recrear Federal Movement, now part of the PRO alliance. In 2009 he is a candidate for National Deputy for the Civic and Social Accord alliance of Radicals and the Civic Coalition, amongst others.
Gómez Diez was born in Salta and studied at the Catholic University of Salta, becoming a
one senator in the Argentine Senate, Ricardo Gómez Diez, who contested the 2003 Argentine presidential elections as the running mate of López Murphy, coming third. In 2007, there was an acrimonious split in the PRS, with Gómez Diez losing the leadership by 48% to 52% to Andrés Zottos, then a national deputy. In a similar split as that faced by the other national and provincial parties, the party divided between those who supported the nation policies of Néstor Kirchner and those who opposed. Zottos and his supporters favoured