Guadalupe Tagliaferri

Guadalupe Tagliaferri
National Senator
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 December 2019
Constituency	City of Buenos Aires
Minister of Human Development and Habitat of Buenos Aires
In office 10 December 2015 – 10 December 2019
Mayor	Horacio Rodríguez Larreta
Preceded by	Carolina Stanley
Succeeded by	María Migliore
Personal details
Born	(1974-06-26) 26 June 1974 (age 50) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Political party	Republican Proposal
Other political affiliations	Juntos por el Cambio (since 2015)
Alma mater	University of Buenos Aires

Guadalupe Tagliaferri (born 26 June 1974) is an Argentine politician, currently serving as a National Senator for the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires since 2019. She previously served as Minister of Human Development of Buenos Aires in the administration of Chief of Government Horacio Rodríguez Larreta from 2015 to 2019. She belongs to the Republican Proposal (PRO) party.

Early life and education

Guadalupe Tagliaferri was born on 26 June 1974 in Buenos Aires. She studied political science at the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Social Sciences, and has a master's degree in political administration.^[1]

Political career

Tagliaferri's involvement in politics began in Grupo Sophia, a think tank founded by Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.^[2] In 2009, she was appointed General Director for Women in the Buenos Aires City Government; she would later be appointed as Undersecretary of Social Promotion and, in 2013, she was appointed to preside the city's Council of Children and Adolescents' Rights.^[1]

In 2015, upon Rodríguez Larreta's election as Chief of Government (mayor) of Buenos Aires, Tagliaferri was appointed as Minister of Human Development and Habitat, succeeding Carolina Stanley, who was appointed Minister of Social Development of Argentina.^[3][4] As minister, Tagliaferri oversaw the demolition of the Elefante Blanco, an abandoned hospital in the city's Villa Lugano barrio, and its replacement with a new building for the Ministry of Human Development.^[5][6]

National Senator

Ahead of the 2019 legislative election, Tagliaferri was internally selected to be the second candidate in the Juntos por el Cambio list to the Argentine Senate, after Martín Lousteau.^[7] The list received 53.99% of the votes and Tagliaferri was comfortably elected alongside Lousteau.^[8] She was sworn in on 27 November 2019.^[9]

Tagliaferri is one of the Senate's supporters of the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Bill brought forward by President Alberto Fernández in 2020.^[1][10][11]

References

1. "Larreta piensa en una mujer para darle perfil progresista a su lista de la Ciudad". El Cronista (in Spanish). 18 June 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
2. Palese, Gonzalo (5 December 2019). "Larreta extiende sus redes hasta el Congreso con un jugador en cada sala". Letra P (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 December 2020.
3. Palese, Gonzalo (3 December 2015). "Uno a uno, quién es quién en el gabinete de Rodríguez Larreta". Letra P (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 December 2020.
4. Etchenique, María Belén (4 December 2015). "Larreta armó su equipo: mucha gestión y pocas caras nuevas". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 December 2020.
5. "El Ministerio de Desarrollo Humano porteño se muda a los terrenos del demolido Elefante Blanco". Infobae (in Spanish). 10 July 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
6. "Inaugurarán la nueva sede del Ministerio de Desarrollo Humano donde fue el Elefante Blanco". Télam (in Spanish). 11 July 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
7. "Lousteau en la boleta de senadores porteña". La Política Online (in Spanish). 20 June 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
8. "Rodríguez Larreta superó el 55% y fue reelecto en primera vuelta". La Prensa (in Spanish). 27 October 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
9. "Recalde, Lousteau y Tagliaferri juraron como senadores por la Ciudad de Buenos Aires". Nueva Ciudad (in Spanish). 27 November 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
10. Iglesias, Mariana (12 December 2020). "Guadalupe Tagliaferri: "Será un enorme paso tener interrupción voluntaria del embarazo"". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 December 2020.
11. Argento, Analía (20 December 2020). "Aliadas y opositoras: una senadora kirchnerista y otra del PRO unen fuerzas por el aborto legal". Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 December 2020.

External links

• Official website (in Spanish)
• Guadalupe Tagliaferri on Twitter