San Luis province (Argentina)

Last modified: 2005-04-23 by francisco gregoric
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Original law text

Ley 4810
de la Legislatura de San Luis
de 22 de Junio de 1988.

El Senado y la Camara de Diputados de la Provincia de San Luis sancionan con fuerza de Ley:

• Art. 1. - Crear la bandera de la provincia de San Luis que será de color blanco y contendrá en su centro el escudo provincial con los elementos constitutivos de éste según la Ley 1640/39 y Decreto reglamentario 800 G y E SEG 78.
• Art. 2. - Autorizar al poder ejecutivo a reglamentar esta ley y a ordenar la confección artistica del simbolo y la reproducción de mil ejemplares para su distribución.
• Art. 3. - Regístrese, comuníquese al poder ejecutivo de acuerdo a los articulos 132 y 133 de la Constitución provincial.

Pedro Humberto González,
presidente de la Honorable Camara de diputados de la Provincia de San Luis.
Angel Rafael Ruiz,
Presidente de la Honorable Camara de Senadores de la Provincia de San Luis.

Social Inclusion Plan flag

Due to the current political situation in the province, this flag has been shown on TV and news pictures throughout the country, but it is not a new San Luis provincial flag. It is the flag of a social plan implemented by the current San Luis governor, Alberto Rodríguez Saá, called «Plan for Social Inclusion». (Whether such Plan is positive or not depends on one’s political views.)

The official name of the flag is «Flag of the Plan for Social Inclusion» («Bandera del Plan de Inclusión Social»). The province’s political opposition associates the flag to Rodríguez Saá’s government and for that reason has been burnt in opposition’s demonstrations.

The question is that it is a flag with “official status” since it has the provincial arms, is flown from the provincial government seat’s balconies, and was shown as a desk flag when the governor spoke about the Plan, together with the Argentinian and provincial flags [behind him].

Francisco Gregoric, 21 May 2004, translated by Santiago Dotor