Born in Rosario in 1945, Bordón graduated in sociology from the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires in 1970.

Over that period he had become distant from the Peronist leadership, which under President Carlos Menem had moved to the right with neoliberal economic policies.

Bordón became presidential candidate for FrePaSo for the 1995 general elections, with Carlos Chacho Álvarez as his running mate.

However, not long after the election, Bordón fell out with FrePaSo in a leadership dispute and returned to the Justicialist Party.

The prominent diplomat and politician is a member of the Inter-American Dialogue,[2] is married to the former Mónica González Gaviola and has three children.