 Ramón Saadi was elected governor of Catamarca in 1987, Alicia Saadi was elected to the Senate in 1999, and Vicente Saadi (jr) and his daughter-in-law.He was ultimately re-elected to the Senate in 1973 on behalf of the Peronist-led Frejuli alliance, serving until the dissolution of the Argentine Senate in the March 1976 coup.In the 1970s Saadi had been a leading supporter of the far-left Montoneros, and set up the "Intransigencia y Movilización" faction; he was a patron of future Defense Minister Nilda Garré.