Facundo Moyano

Facundo Moyano
National Deputy
In office
4 December 2011 – 12 August 2021
ConstituencyBuenos Aires
Personal details
Born (1984-12-25) 25 December 1984 (age 39)
Mar del Plata, Argentina
Political partyJusticialist Party (until 2013)
Renewal Front (2013–2018)
CET Party (2013–present)
Other political
affiliations		Front for Victory (2011–2013)
United for a New Alternative (2015–2017)
Frente de Todos (2019–present)
SpouseEva Bargiela
Parent

Juan Facundo Moyano (born 25 December 1984) is an Argentine trade unionist and politician. A member of the Party of Culture, Education and Labour (CET), Moyano was a National Deputy for Buenos Aires Province from 2011 to 2021.

From 2009 to 2017, Moyano was Secretary General of the Sindicato Único de Trabajadores de los Peajes y Afines (SUTPA, the toll booth workers' union). Moyano is the son of Hugo Moyano, one of Argentina's most prominent union leaders and former Secretary General of the General Confederation of Labour.

Early life and education

Juan Facundo Moyano was born on 25 December 1984 in Mar del Plata,[1] the fifth of Hugo Moyano's nine children, and the first by his second wife, Elvira Cortés.[2] Hugo Moyano is widely considered to be one of the most prominent union leaders in Argentina, having presided over the Buenos Aires Province Teamsters' Union (Sindicato de Choferes de Camiones de Buenos Aires) since 1987.[3]

He has lived in Buenos Aires since he was 20 years old. He has a degree on Image Assessment and Public Consulting from Universidad Camilo José Cela.[4]

Career

Facundo Moyano with President Néstor Kirchner and his father Hugo Moyano.

Moyano has been active in union politics since 2005.[5] In 2006, he co-founded the Sindicato Único de Trabajadores de los Peajes y Afines (SUTPA), a specialized union for toll booth workers in the Greater Buenos Aires, organized within the General Confederation of Labour (CGT). SUTPA gained major concessions from private contractors in 2007 and 2008.[6] In March 2009, Moyano was elected Secretary General of the union, and was re-elected in 2013, after which the union introduced term limits for the position.[7]

National Deputy

Moyano (to the right) being sworn in as deputy for his first term, in 2011.

Moyano was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2011, as the 11th candidate in the Front for Victory list in Buenos Aires Province.[8] He was elected and sat in the Front for Victory bloc, aligned with the government of then-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.[9] By 2012, however, the relationship between the CGT and Fernández de Kirchner's government had deteriorated,[10] and in 2013, Moyano split from the FPV bloc. That year, Hugo Moyano founded the Party of Culture, Education and Labour (CET Party), which Facundo Moyano joined. In the Chamber of Deputies, Moyano formed part of the Renewal Front bloc, led by Sergio Massa.[11]

Ahead of the 2015 legislative election, Moyano was the first deputy candidate in the United for a New Alternative (UNA) list in Buenos Aires Province.[12] The UNA list received 20.98% of the popular vote in Buenos Aires Province, and Moyano was re-elected.[13] In 2018, Moyano and a group of deputies broke ranks with the Renewal Front and formed the Red por Argentina parliamentary bloc.[14] Before the 2019 general election, the CET Party, alongside the entirety of the CGT, joined forces with other Peronist political groups and formed the Frente de Todos (FDT) to back the presidential candidacy of Alberto Fernández. Moyano was the eleventh candidate in the FDT deputies list in Buenos Aires Province, which received 51.64% of the vote, allowing for Moyano to be re-elected.[15]

As deputy, Moyano introduced legislation on labour affairs and on transport. In 2020, he introduced a bill to reduce the legal alcohol levels for drivers to 0.[16] For the 2019–2023 term, Moyano was part of the parliamentary commissions on Science and Technology, Sports, Population and Human Development, Industry, Labour Legislation, and Transport.[1] He was a vocal supporter of the legalization of abortion in Argentina, voting in favour of the two Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bills that were debated by the Argentine Congress in 2018 and 2020.[17][18]

Moyano resigned from his seat in the Chamber of Deputies on 12 August 2021.[19]

Personal life

Moyano's romantic life has been subject to media scrutiny.[20] He has been intermittently linked to models Nicole Neumann and Eva Bargiela.[21][22][23] On 15 October 2021, Moyano and Bargiela married in a private ceremony in Palermo, Buenos Aires.[24]

In March 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina, Moyano stated that he would not get the vaccine, and called COVID-19 a "very psychosomatic, very strange disease".[25][26] He would later apologize and retract his statements.[27] Moyano had previously tested positive for COVID-19.[28]

References

  1. ^ a b "Juan Facundo Moyano". Directorio Legislativo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 3 August 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  2. ^ "El árbol genealógico de los Moyano: quién es quién en la familia del jefe camionero". La Nación (in Spanish). 9 February 2021. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  3. ^ Sehinkman, Diego (21 December 2013). "Facundo Moyano: "Claramente tengo mis aspiraciones de poder"". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  4. ^ Ise, Ernesto (23 June 2018). "Facundo Moyano estuvo en Madrid para su graduación". Perfil (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  5. ^ Mengolini, Julia (9 July 2010). ""El trabajador no le puede dar la espalda a ninguna discusión política porque, precisamente, el trabajador es la política"". Ni a Palos (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  6. ^ "Peajes: los gremialistas de Facundo Moyano ganan $3800 por mes y rechazaron un aumento de 15%". Infobae (in Spanish). 3 June 2009. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  7. ^ Ballinotti, Nicolás (11 November 2016). "El gremio de los peajes les pone fin a los mandatos eternos". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  8. ^ "El Frente Para la Victoria presentó ante la Justicia la lista de candidatos para el Congreso". Ámbito (in Spanish). 30 June 2011. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  9. ^ "Juraron los 130 nuevos diputados nacionales". Parlamentario (in Spanish). 6 December 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  10. ^ Galand, Pablo (10 June 2012). "Entrevista. Facundo Moyano. Sec. Gral. SUTPA". Infonews (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  11. ^ "Facundo Moyano, sobre su salto al massismo: "Es una decisión tomada"". La Nación (in Spanish). 22 November 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  12. ^ "Massa lleva a Gustavo Sáenz como vicepresidente a Solá-Arroyo en Provincia". El Cronista (in Spanish). 20 June 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  13. ^ "Elecciones 2015: la conformación del próximo Congreso en tiempo real". La Nación (in Spanish). 26 October 2015. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  14. ^ "Con la consigna de unir a la oposición, Solá formará un interbloque con el movimiento Evita". Télam (in Spanish). 22 October 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  15. ^ "Provincia: cómo quedaron confeccionadas las listas a diputados". Ámbito (in Spanish). 23 June 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  16. ^ Moyano, Facundo (20 January 2020). ""Alcohol cero": un proyecto por la vida". Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  17. ^ "Cómo votó cada diputado y diputada el proyecto de ley de legalización del aborto". CDM Noticias (in Spanish). 14 June 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  18. ^ "Así votó cada diputado". Télam (in Spanish). 11 December 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  19. ^ "Facundo Moyano presentó su renuncia a la Cámara de Diputados". Ámbito (in Spanish). 12 August 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  20. ^ Pardo, Daniel (21 February 2018). "Quién es Hugo Moyano, el poderoso y polémico camionero que puede paralizar a Argentina y ahora se enfrenta a Mauricio Macri". BBC Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  21. ^ "Facundo Moyano sobre su ruptura con Nicole Neumann: "No hay relación"". La Nación (in Spanish). 10 January 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  22. ^ "Facundo Moyano se reconcilió con su novia, Eva Bargiela". La Nación (in Spanish). 9 January 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  23. ^ "Eva Bargiela contó cómo vive la cuarentena: "Hay días en que me levanto angustiada"". Caras (in Spanish). 12 May 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  24. ^ "Las fotos del casamiento de Eva Bargiela y Facundo Moyano por Civil: looks elegantes, cancheros y miradas cómplices". Ciudad Magazine (in Spanish). 15 October 2021. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
  25. ^ "Facundo Moyano dijo que no se vacunará: "No me convence el coronavirus, es una enfermedad muy psicosomática"". El Cronista (in Spanish). 10 March 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  26. ^ ""Es psicosomático", la frase de Facundo Moyano sobre el Covid-19 que levantó polémica". Ámbito (in Spanish). 10 March 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  27. ^ "Facundo Moyano: "No soy antivacuna"". Perfil (in Spanish). 11 March 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  28. ^ "Facundo Moyano pidió disculpas por minimizar el coronavirus". Ámbito (in Spanish). 11 March 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
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