 In 1987, after his term expired, he was elected Senator and was succeeded as governor by his own father, Vicente Saadi.The elder Saadi died in 1988, however, and Ramón Saadi returned to Catamarca to be elected governor once again.The 1990 murder of María Soledad Morales by two youths whose fathers were linked to Governor Saadi led to a national outcry, and ultimately to the governor's removal by federal intervention on April 28, 1991.