List of provisional presidents of the Argentine Senate

The provisional president of the Senate of the Argentine Nation (Spanish: Presidente provisional del Senado de la Nación Argentina), commonly known as the provisional president, is the highest-ranking official in the Argentine Senate, the upper chamber of the National Congress of Argentina barring the presence of the titular president of the Senate, the vice president of Argentina.

Provisional President of the Argentine Senate
Presidente Provisional del Honorable Senado de la Nación
Incumbent Bartolomé Abdala since 13 December 2023
Term length	One year, renewable
Inaugural holder	José Acevedo
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 second in the line of succession to the presidency in Argentina. At the outset of each legislative year, which per governing statutes takes place during the first ten days of December, the members of the Senate elects the provisional president. Minority parties in the chamber elect three vice presidents.

List of provisional presidents

President	Party		Term start	Term end
José Acevedo		Unitarian Party	1855	1856
Tomás Guido		Unitarian Party	1856	1858
Mariano Fragueiro		Unitarian Party	1858	1858
Pascual Echagüe		Federalist Party	1858	1859
Manuel Leiva		Unitarian Party	1859	1860
Pascual Echagüe		Federalist Party	1860	1861
Nicolás Calvo		Federalist Party	1861	1862
Marcos Paz		Unitarian Party	1862	1862
Valentín Alsina		Unitarian Party	1862	1864
Pedro Ferré		Federalist Party	1864	1865
Valentín Alsina		Unitarian Party	1865	1869
Salustiano Zavalía		Unitarian Party	1869	1870
Manuel Quintana		Autonomist Party	1870	1875
Wenceslao Díaz Colodrero		National Autonomist Party	1875	1876
Dardo Rocha		National Autonomist Party	1876	1878
Benjamín Paz		National Autonomist Party	1878	1880
Aristóbulo del Valle		National Autonomist Party	1880	1881
Benjamín Paz		National Autonomist Party	1881	1883
Antonino Cambaceres		National Autonomist Party	1883	1889
Julio Argentino Roca		National Autonomist Party	1889	1890
Manuel Derqui		National Autonomist Party	1890	1891
Miguel Nougués		National Autonomist Party	1891	1892
Julio Argentino Roca		National Autonomist Party	1892	1892
Mariano Varela		National Autonomist Party	1892	1893
José Gálvez		National Autonomist Party	1893	1894
Leonidas Echagüe		National Autonomist Party	1894	1895
Julio Argentino Roca		National Autonomist Party	1895	1898
Bartolomé Mitre		National Autonomist Party	1898	1902
José Evaristo Uriburu		National Autonomist Party	1902	1905
Félix Uriburu		National Autonomist Party	1905	1906
Benito Villanueva		National Autonomist Party	1906	1908
José Evaristo Uriburu		National Autonomist Party	1908	1909
Benito Villanueva		National Autonomist Party	1909	1910
Domingo Pérez		National Autonomist Party	1910	1910
Antonio del Pino		National Autonomist Party	1910	1911
Benito Villanueva		National Autonomist Party	1911	1922
Leopoldo Melo		Antipersonalist UCR	1922	1928
Luis Etchevehere		Antipersonalist UCR	1928	1930
Congress closed during the dictatorship of José Félix Uriburu (1930–1932)
Robustiano Patrón Costas		National Democratic Party	1932	1943
Congress closed during the dictatorship of the Revolución del 43 (1943–1946)
Ernesto Bavio		Radical Civic Union	1946	1947
Alberto Teisaire		Peronist Party	1947	1953
Alberto Iturbe		Peronist Party	1953	1954
Ramón Albariño		Peronist Party	1954	1955
Congress closed during the dictatorship of the Revolución Libertadora (1955–1958)
José María Guido		Intransigent UCR	31 March 1958	30 March 1962
Eduardo Gamond		People's UCR	12 August 1963	28 June 1966
Congress closed during the dictatorship of the Revolución Argentina (1966–1973)
Alejandro Díaz Bialet		Justicialist Party	3 May 1973	13 July 1973
José Antonio Allende		Christian Democratic Party	13 July 1973	25 April 1975
Ítalo Lúder		Justicialist Party	8 July 1975	24 March 1976
Congress closed during the dictatorship of the National Reorganization Process (1976–1983)
Edison Otero		Radical Civic Union	29 November 1983	31 May 1989
Eduardo Menem		Justicialist Party	31 May 1989	1 December 1999
José Genoud		Radical Civic Union	1 December 1999	9 October 2000
Mario Losada		Radical Civic Union	11 October 2000	10 December 2001
Ramón Puerta		Justicialist Party	10 December 2001	30 December 2001
Juan Carlos Maqueda		Justicialist Party	4 January 2002	27 December 2002
José Luis Gioja		Justicialist Party	27 December 2002	4 December 2003
Marcelo Guinle		Justicialist Party–FPV	4 December 2003	22 February 2006
José Pampuro		Justicialist Party–FPV	22 February 2006	30 November 2011
Beatriz Rojkés de Alperovich		Justicialist Party–FPV	30 November 2011	28 February 28, 2014
Gerardo Zamora		Civic Front for Santiago	28 February 2014	3 December 2015
Federico Pinedo		PRO–Cambiemos	3 December 2015	10 December 2019
Claudia Ledesma Abdala		Justicialist Party–FdT	10 December 2019	10 December 2023
Bartolomé Abdala		Libertarian Party–LLA	13 December 2023	Incumbent

External links

• Official website of the Argentine Senate (in Spanish)