José Luis Espert
Jose Luis Espert | |
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Espert in 2024 | |
| National Deputy | |
| In office 10 December 2021 – 10 December 2025 | |
| Constituency | Buenos Aires |
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| Born | 21 November 1961 Pergamino, Argentina |
| Party | Independent |
| Other political affiliations | Avanza Libertad (2019–2024) Juntos por el Cambio (2023) La Libertad Avanza (since 2024) |
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José Luis Espert (born 21 November 1961) is an Argentine economist and politician. He is member of the political coalition La Libertad Avanza. He was elected National Deputy for the Province of Buenos Aires in the 2021 Argentine legislative election. He was the founder and leader of the Avanza Libertad coalition, briefly joined Juntos por el Cambio in 2023, and became a member of La Libertad Avanza the following year.
In August 2025, he was confirmed as La Libertad Avanza's lead candidate for the Chamber of Deputies in Buenos Aires Province, amid controversy over his links to businessman Federico Machado. He resigned from the candidacy on 5 October 2025 following the ensuing scandal, and stepped down as chair of the Budget and Finance Committee the following day.
Espert supports free trade, proposes to deepen the commercial opening with the world, and attacks the trade agreement Mercosur for what he describes as its limitations to this. He is against the "corporations that devour the country"; he proposes that the country "change the system for another". With his ideology, he seeks to position himself as the only representative of liberalism.