This morning the prominent lawyer and leader of the UCR, Ral Baglini. Mario Negri posted on his Twitter account: “It is a very sad day for those of us who knew him and were lucky enough to have his friendship. Ral Baglini, an exemplary leader of the UCR and one of the most prominent legislators our country had in the last decades. We will miss him a lot. I hug your family. “
Baglini was a attorney who, in addition, has served as a politician for much of his life. He was a deputy and national senator for Mendoza between 1983 and 2003.
He was an academic and feverish militant from a very young age, since when he began his studies in Law at the National University of Cordoba, he began, at the same time, his militancy in the UCR. In 1986, when he was already a deputy for that party, Baglini stated what later became known in Argentina as the theorem of Baglini, a concept that holds that the degree of responsibility for the proposals of a party or political leader is directly proportional to their chances of accessing power.
On the other hand, during his tenure in Congress, Baglini He was a great defender of the Ral Alfonsn presidency and a firm opponent of his successor, the Peronist Carlos Menem. His positions were rotated and he reached the presidency of the bench of the UCR.
He was also president of the Budget and Finance Committee and vice president of the Chamber. Then he presided over the National Convention of the UCR.
During the vice presidency of Julio Cobos, in 2008 Baglini collaborated with the reorganization of the party here in the province of Mendoza.
The party of the Mendoza UCR post your farewell on Twitter: