Juan Carlos Marino (politician)

Juan Carlos Marino (born October 23, 1963) is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician.

From 2003 to 2021, he sat in the Argentine Senate representing La Pampa Province.

A farmer in his youth, he became active in politics in 1983 as a member of the local chapter of the centrist UCR; the party's standard bearer, Raúl Alfonsín, had just been elected President of Argentina after a 7-year dictatorship.

[2] Marino was nominated as candidate for Governor of La Pampa in 2007 as the top of the FrePam (Frente Pampeano Cívico y Social) ticket, a coalition between the provincial UCR, Socialist Party, FreGen, MID, and dissident members of ARI.

[2] He ran for governor on the FrePam ticket again in 2011, but was again defeated by Óscar Jorge (the incumbent) by 15%.