Vice President Julio Cobos of Argentina

Cobos was asked by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to stand as her running mate in 2007 heading the Front for Victory slate.

Having won the election, Cobos was sworn in as Vice-President in December 2007.

Cobos had been expected to back President Fernández de Kirchner.

Cobos has said that the move diffused tensions in the country between farmers and the state.

Since July 27, 2008, Cobos has not spoken in person or on the phone with Fernandez, also being shunned by Cabinet officials.

Julio César Cleto Cobos is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician, current governor of Mendoza Province.

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Cobos has an academic background in civil engineering, graduating from the Universidad Tecnologica Nacional and teaching at this and other universities.

however Cobos supported Celso Jaque to take office in 2007 on the same slate as Kirchner.

Cobos took the Veep's job to put on a united front.

Vice President Julio Cobos has become the most popular politician in Argentina strengthened by the weakness of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner who has committed several major political errors and no longer speaks with him.

Cobos says he is committed to working with Mrs.

Cobos is a 53-year-old civil engineer, a former Dean of the Engineering School and ex-governor of the wine producing province of Mendoza in central Argentina and bordering with Chile.

Cobos is a regular critic of government figures.

Argentina's vice president Julio Cobos said on Friday that cabinet minister Julio De Vido should "come clear" about his alleged links with the suitcase cash scandal currently being aired in a Miami federal court.

Cobos has been persona non grata since casting his vote.

Cobos is a consequence of the intolerant and authoritarian style of the Kirchners, said Eduardo Buzzi, head of the Argentine Agrarian Foundation, which fought against the presidents farm tax plan.

Cobos was a little-known one-term governor in Mendoza, where he also served as the minister of environment and public works.

Cobos has as good a chance as any to build himself into a viable alternative, said E.

Cobos said his vote against the farm bill ended up helping Mrs.

Cobos says he remains committed to the basic principles of Mrs.

Cobos said he had no illusions that, as is true of most vice presidents, his power to affect policy was limited.

As vice-president, Mr Cobos had the tie-breaking vote in the Senate on a crucial tax bill backed by Ms Fernndez.

But inside the Pink House, the presidential palace, Cobos has been persona non grata since casting his vote.

This has been a very difficult situation," Cobos said last week in his Senate office.

Before the October 2007 election, Cobos was a little-known one-term governor in Mendoza, where he also served as the minister of environment and public works.

Argentina's opposition remains splintered and rudderless, and Cobos has as good a chance as anyone to build himself into a viable alternative, said E.

Cobos said his vote against the farm bill ended up helping Fernandez more than hurting her.

Cobos said he remained committed to the basic principles of Fernandez's campaign platform, including her professed efforts to redistribute wealth.

Still, Cobos said he recognizes that, as is true of most vice presidents, his power to affect policy is limited.

This week, as the president was in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, Cobos was Argentina's acting president and captured the headlines by meeting with Argentine Agricultural Federation leader Eduardo Buzzi, a leader of the protests against the government's farm policies.

Cobos said he has not spoken with the president since a meeting they held a few days after he cast his now famous July 17 vote, as president of the Senate, defeating the government's farm export taxes bill.

Cobos is a member of a group from the opposition Radical Civic Union party that backs the ruling Peronist party.