question: Which Argentine politician was the last Argentine president to be elected by the electoral college?
answer: Carlos Menem
context: Title: José Ignacio Rucci
  Passage: José Ignacio Rucci (March 5, 1924 – September 25, 1973) was an Argentine politician and union leader, appointed general secretary of the CGT (General Confederation of Labour) in 1970.  Close to the Argentine president Juan Perón, and a chief representative of the "syndical bureaucracy" (the trade-union movement's right wing); he was assassinated in 1973.
  Title: Finnish presidential election, 1988
  Passage: Presidential elections were held in Finland in 1988.  They were the first elections held under a new system.  Previously, the public had elected an electoral college that in turn elected the President.  For this election, the public directly elected the President on 31 January and 1 February, but also elected an electoral college that would elect the President if no candidate won over 50% of the popular vote.  The college was increased in size from 300 to 301 seats to make a tie less likely, though this was still technically possible, as electors could abstain from voting.
  Title: European Parliament election, 1999 (Belgium)
  Passage: Elections to the European Parliament were held in Belgium on June 13, 1999.  The Dutch electoral college elected 14 MEPs, the French electoral college elected 10 MEPs and the German-speaking electoral college elected 1 MEP.  The European elections were held on the same day as the federal election and the regional elections.
  Title: House of Councillors (Morocco)
  Passage: The House of Councillors (Berber: "Agraw en imessemtiren", Arabic: مجلس المستشارين) is the upper house of the Parliament of Morocco and has 120 members, elected for a six-year term.  72 members are elected at the Kingdom's regional level, who represent the subnational administrative areas (collectivitiés territoriales); 20 members are elected in each region by a single electoral college made up of all those in the relevant region that have been elected to the following professional associations: the agriculture associations, the commerce, industry and services associations, the arts and crafts associations and the marine fisheries associations; 8 members are elected in each region by an electoral college made up of those elected from the most representative employers' professional organizations; 20 members elected nationally by an electoral college made up of employees.
  Title: Presidency of Woodrow Wilson
  Passage: The presidency of Woodrow Wilson began on March 4, 1913 at noon when Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated as President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1921.  Wilson, a Democrat, took office as the 28th United States president after winning the 1912 presidential election, gaining a large majority in the Electoral College and a 42 percent plurality of the popular vote in a four–candidate field.  Four years later, in 1916, Wilson defeated Republican Charles Evans Hughes by nearly 600,000 votes in the popular vote and secured a narrow majority in the Electoral College by winning several swing states with razor-thin margins.  He was the first Southerner elected as president since Zachary Taylor in 1848, and the first Democratic president to win re-election since Andrew Jackson in 1832.
  Title: Brazilian presidential election, 1985
  Passage: The 1985 Brazilian presidential election was the last to be held indirectly through an electoral college, and the last to be held under the Military Regime.  The electoral college system was put in place so that the military elite that controlled the government could secure the election of the candidate chosen by the High Command of the Armed Forces as President.  However, in 1985, due to the process of negotiated transition to democracy that started in the late 1970s, the politicians in the electoral college were placed under no coercion, and were allowed to choose the president of their choice.
  Title: Argentine general election, 1989
  Passage: The Argentine general election of 1989 was held on 14 May 1989.  Voters chose both the President and their legislators and with a turnout of 85.3%, Carlos Menem won the presidency, and the Justicialist Party won the control of both house of Congress.  This is the last presidential election the president was elected by the electoral college.
  Title: List of Presidents of the United States
  Passage: The President of the United States is the elected head of state and head of government of the United States.  The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.  The president is indirectly elected to a four-year term by the people through the Electoral College (or by the House of Representatives, should the Electoral College fail to award an absolute majority of votes to any person).
  Title: Carlos Menem
  Passage: Carlos Saúl Menem (born July 2, 1930) is an Argentine politician who was President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999.  He has been a Senator for La Rioja Province since 2005.
  Title: European Parliament election, 1994 (Belgium)
  Passage: Elections to the European Parliament were held in Belgium on June 12, 1994.  The Dutch-speaking electoral college elected 14 MEPs, the French-speaking electoral college elected 10 MEPs and the German-speaking electoral college elected 1 MEP.
citations: Carlos Menem Argentine general election, 1989