Sergio Ziliotto
Sergio Raúl Ziliotto (born 24 September 1962) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician who is currently governor of La Pampa Province, since 10 December 2019. Previously, from 2015 to 2019, he was a National Deputy for La Pampa. Early life and education Sergio Raúl Ziliotto was born on 24 September 1962 in General Pico, La Pampa Province. His father, son of immigrants, was a policeman, and also worked as a trucker. He moved to the provincial capital, Santa Rosa, to enroll at the National University of La Pampa (UNLPam). It was there that he began his political activism in the local chapter of the Peronist Youth. Political career Ziliotto was appointed director of transport by then-governor Rubén Marín in 1991. Under the governorship of Carlos Verna, he was appointed Undersecretary of Social Policy in 2003 and then Minister of Social Welfare in 2006. As minister, Ziliotto designed the "Plan Piquén", which reformed the existing social assistance scheme in the province and introduced a debit card-based welfare scheme. He was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 2015, where he formed part of the Justicialist bloc. As a national deputy, Ziliotto gained national recognition in 2018 when, following Verna's instructions,