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7-500: 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 on October 23, 2005, the party won two of the 127 elected national deputies (out of 257). It has one of

14-662: The Neuquén People's Movement and head of the locally influential Sapag family. Sapag was born in Mayrouba , in the Keserwan District , Lebanon , and emigrated with his parents to Argentina in 1913. They arrived in Covunco , Neuquén, where his grandfather had already set up home, and moved on to Zapala . His parents had several more children, including his brothers Felipe , Amado and José. The family were successful in business, but

21-491: The 1930 economic collapse brought great hardship. Sapag and his brothers were forced to give up their education to work to support the family and they moved to Cutral Có to set up a company. He and his brothers played leading roles in the community, and became leading Peronist activists. Elías chaired the Settlement Committee ( Comisión de Fomento ) of the town whilst Felipe was secretary, helping newcomers to settle in

28-520: The new town. Felipe later became the first mayor of Cutral-Có, and Amado became mayor of Zapala. Following the military coup d'etat and the banning of the Peronist movement, Sapag and his brothers founded the Neuquino People's Movement, a provincial political party able to contest elections. Originally called 'Provincial Politics', it came into being on June 4, 1961, and Elías became party president. He

35-626: The presidency of the MPN in December 2007. The party has seen internal rivalry between the Sapag and Sobisch families, along a left-right political split. This article about an Argentine political party is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . El%C3%ADas Sapag Elías Canaán Sapag ( Arabic : إلياس كنعان صباغ) (August 5, 1911 – June 21, 1993) was a Lebanese -born Argentine politician, long-serving senator for Neuquén Province , founder of

42-477: 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

49-484: Was elected to the Argentine Senate in 1963, whilst Felipe was elected Governor of Neuquén and would serve on four further occasions until the 1990s. Having been deposed by the military in 1966, Elías Sapag was re-elected to the Senate in 1973, and returned to Congress in 1983 upon the restoration of democracy, serving until his death in 1993. He was one of Argentina's longest-serving senators. Sapag married Alma Cavallo, who

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