Pedro Guastavino

Who is Pedro Guastavino?

Pedro Guillermo Angel Guastavino is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He sits in the Argentine Senate representing Entre Ríos Province in the block of the majority Front for Victory.

Guastavino qualified as a lawyer at the National University of La Plata. In 1987 he joined the national government as Director of Promotion at the Ministry of Social Action, then becoming subsecretary of social action in the same ministry. From 1991 he worked as Director of the Institute of Financial Assistance at the Social Action Ministry.

In 1995, he became President of the Gualeguaychú Justicialist Party and in 1999 he was elected a provincial deputy for Gualeguaychú. Guastavino was elected vice governor of Entre Ríos in 2003 as the running mate of Jorge Busti. At the end of his term of office, he was elected senator for the province and took office in December 2007.