Mario_Alberto_Ishii

Mario Alberto Ishii

Mario Alberto Ishii

Argentine politician

Mario Alberto Ishii (born 22 June 1951) is an Argentine politician of the Justicialist Party, currently serving as intendente (mayor) of José C. Paz, a partido in the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area. He is popularly known as El Japonés ("the Japanese") due to his Japanese heritage.[1]

Quick Facts Mayor of José C. Paz, Preceded by ...
Daniel Scioli, Mario Alberto Ishii (center) and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at the official ceremony (January 17, 2008).

He was first elected mayor in 1999, and continued to be so until 2013, when he was elected to the as Buenos Aires Province Senate.[2] In 2015, he was once again elected mayor.[3]

In August 2020 a video was leaked, showing him accusing city workers of selling drugs in municipal ambulances and saying he had to cover for them, causing major national media attention and a legal case to be opened.[1][2][4] He then claimed that when he said "drugs" he had meant "medicines".[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Savoia, Claudio (25 July 2020). "Mario Ishii, un caudillo feudal del conurbano que juró lealtad K y controla la capital de la pobreza". Clarín.
  2. [2]
    "Eterno oficialista y con graves denuncias: quién es Mario Ishii, el intendente de José C. Paz" [Eternal officialist and with serious complaints: who is Mario Ishii, the mayor of José C. Paz]. Infobae (in Spanish). 25 July 2020.
  3. [3]
    Di Santi, Matías (26 October 2020). "¿Cómo queda el mapa de los intendentes tras la salida de la mayoría de los barones del conurbano?". Chequeado.
  4. [4]
    "Mario Ishii y una polémica frase sobre ambulancias que venden droga" [Mario Ishii and a polemic phrase on ambulances selling drugs]. Página 12 (in Spanish). 26 July 2020.
  5. [5]
    "Sigue el escándalo con Ishii: ahora dice que "la falopa" eran medicamentos". El Cronista (in Spanish). 27 July 2020.
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