List of provisional presidents of the Argentine Senate

List of Provisional Presidents of the Argentine Senate.

Provisional President of the Argentine Senate Presidente Provisional del Honorable Senado de la Nación
Incumbent Claudia Ledesma Abdala since December 10, 2019
Term length	One year, renewable
Inaugural holder	José Acevedo[1]
Formation	Argentine Constitution of 1853
Deputy	Juan Carlos Marino, First Vice President
Website	Honorable Senado de la Nación

The Provisional President of the Senate is the highest-ranking official in the Upper House barring the presence of the titular President of the Senate, the Vice President of Argentina. The Provisional President of the Senate is second in the line of succession to the Presidency in Argentina. This official is elected by his or her peers at the outset of each legislative year, which per governing statutes takes place during the first ten days of December. Minority parties in the chamber elect three Vice Presidents.[2]

Name	Entered office	Left office	Party
José Acevedo	1855	1856	Unitarian Party
Tomás Guido	1856	1858	Unitarian Party
Mariano Fragueiro	1858	1858	Unitarian Party
Pascual Echagüe	1858	1859	Federal Party
Manuel Leiva	1859	1860	Unitarian Party
Pascual Echagüe	1860	1861	Federal Party
Nicolás Calvo	1861	1862	Federal Party
Marcos Paz	1862	1862	Liberal Party
Valentín Alsina	1862	1864	Unitarian Party
Pedro Ferré	1864	1865	Federal Party
Valentín Alsina	1865	1869	Unitarian Party
Salustiano Zavalía	1869	1870	Unitarian Party
Manuel Quintana	1870	1875	Autonomist Party
Wenceslao Díaz Colodrero	1875	1876	National Autonomist Party
Dardo Rocha	1876	1878	National Autonomist Party
Benjamín Paz	1878	1880	National Autonomist Party
Aristóbulo del Valle	1880	1881	National Autonomist Party
Benjamín Paz	1881	1883	National Autonomist Party
Antonino Cambaceres	1883	1889	National Autonomist Party
Julio Roca	1889	1890	National Autonomist Party
Manuel Derqui	1890	1891	National Autonomist Party
Miguel Nougués	1891	1892	National Autonomist Party
Julio Roca	1892	1892	National Autonomist Party
Mariano Varela	1892	1893	National Autonomist Party
José Gálvez	1893	1894	National Autonomist Party
Leonidas Echagüe	1894	1895	National Autonomist Party
Julio Roca	1895	1898	National Autonomist Party
Bartolomé Mitre	1898	1902	National Autonomist Party
José Evaristo Uriburu	1902	1905	National Autonomist Party
Félix Uriburu	1905	1906	National Autonomist Party
Benito Villanueva	1906	1908	National Autonomist Party
José Evaristo Uriburu	1908	1909	National Autonomist Party
Benito Villanueva	1909	1910	National Autonomist Party
Domingo Pérez	1910	1910	National Autonomist Party
Antonio del Pino	1910	1911	National Autonomist Party
Benito Villanueva	1911	1922	National Autonomist Party
Leopoldo Melo	1922	1928	Antipersonalist Radical Civic Union
Luis Etchevehere	1928	1930	Antipersonalist Radical Civic Union
Robustiano Patrón Costas	1932	1943	National Democratic Party
Ernesto Bavio	1946	1947	Radical Civic Union/Renewal Movement
Alberto Teisaire	1947	1953	Peronist Party
Alberto Iturbe	1953	1954	Peronist Party
Ramón Albariño	1954	1955	Peronist Party
José María Guido	March 31, 1958	March 30, 1962	Intransigent Radical Civic Union
Eduardo Gamond	August 12, 1963	June 28, 1966	People's Radical Civic Union
Alejandro Díaz Bialet	May 3, 1973	July 13, 1973	Justicialist Party
José Antonio Allende	July 13, 1973	April 25, 1975	Christian Democratic Party
Ítalo Lúder	July 8, 1975	March 24, 1976	Justicialist Party
Edison Otero	November 29, 1983	May 31, 1989	Radical Civic Union
Eduardo Menem	May 31, 1989	December 1, 1999	Justicialist Party
José Genoud	December 1, 1999	October 9, 2000	Radical Civic Union
Mario Losada	October 11, 2000	December 10, 2001	Radical Civic Union
Ramón Puerta	December 10, 2001	December 30, 2001	Justicialist Party
Juan Carlos Maqueda	January 4, 2002	December 27, 2002	Justicialist Party
José Luis Gioja	December 27, 2002	December 4, 2003	Justicialist Party
Marcelo Guinle	December 4, 2003	February 22, 2006	Justicialist Party, Front for Victory
José Pampuro	February 22, 2006	November 30, 2011	Justicialist Party, Front for Victory
Beatriz Rojkés de Alperovich	November 30, 2011	February 28, 2014	Justicialist Party, Front for Victory
Gerardo Zamora	February 28, 2014	December 3, 2015	Civic Front for Santiago
Federico Pinedo	December 3, 2015	December 10, 2019	Republican Proposal
Claudia Ledesma Abdala	December 10, 2019	Present	Frente de Todos

References

1. Nueva Historia de la Nación Argentina. Volúmen 10. Academia Nacional de la Historia Argentina. 2003. p. 339.
2. "Información sobre el Poder Legislativo". Cámara de Senadores de la Nación. Archived from the original on 2011-09-02.