Ana Carla Carrizo (born 6 August 1966) is an Argentine political scientist and politician, currently serving as National Deputy elected in the City of Buenos Aires since 2013. She is a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR).

Carla Carrizo
National Deputy
Assumed office
10 December 2013
ConstituencyCity of Buenos Aires
Personal details
Born (1966-08-06) 6 August 1966 (age 58)
Quilino, Córdoba Province, Argentina
Political partyRadical Civic Union
Other political
affiliations
Broad Front UNEN (2013–2015)
Evolución (2017–2019)
Juntos por el Cambio (2019–present)
Alma materUniversity of Buenos Aires
ProfessionPolitical scientist

Carrizo was director of the Political Science department at the Universidad del Salvador and is a lecturer at the University of Buenos Aires.

Early life and career

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Carrizo was born on 6 August 1966 in Quilino, a small town in the Ischilín Department of Córdoba Province. Her father, Raúl Carrizo, was twice member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for the UCR. When she was fifteen, she moved to Germany to finish high school. She later returned to Argentina and studied Political Science at the Universidad del Salvador.[1]

Carrizo has taught at the Argentine Catholic University, the Torcuato di Tella University and the University of Buenos Aires, where she presently dictates courses on Political Sociology and Political Theory at the Faculty of Social Sciences.[2] Carrizo was also director of the Political Science department at the Universidad del Salvador and served in the directive board of the Political Science department of the University of Buenos Aires.[3]

Carrizo's first cousin, Soledad Carrizo, was mayor of Quilino and currently serves as a national deputy representing Córdoba Province; both were elected in 2013.[4]

Political career

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Carrizo became an affiliated UCR member in 1985. She ran for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies in the 2013 legislative election, as the fourth candidate in the UNEN – Suma+ list in Buenos Aires.[5][6] The list came second in the P.A.S.O. primaries on 11 August 2013, and Carrizo was later the fourth candidate in the definitive UNEN list, which came second in the legislative election on 27 October 2013, with 27.66% of the vote.[7] Carrizo was elected, and took office on 10 December 2013.

Carrizo was re-elected in the 2017 legislative election, this time as part of the Evolución coalition; she was the second candidate in the Evolución list, behind Martín Lousteau. The list was the third-most voted with 12.33% of the vote; only Lousteau and Carrizo were elected.[8][9]

As a national deputy, Carrizo was a vocal supporter of the legalization of abortion in Argentina. She voted in favor of the two Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bills that were debated by the Argentine Congress in 2018 and 2020.[4][10]

Following the 2019 general election, Carrizo, alongside her Evolución parliamentary bloc members Martín Lousteau and Teresita Villavicencio all joined the UCR bloc; since then, she has been vice-president of the UCR bloc in the Chamber of Deputies.[11]

References

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  1. ^ Tessa, Sonia; Peker, Luciana (30 June 2017). "¡Listas!". Página/12 (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Carla CARRIZO". CCI France Argentine (in Spanish). 28 May 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  3. ^ Tesoro, José Luis (November 2017). "ENTREVISTA CON LA LIC. CARLA CARRIZO, DIPUTADA NACIONAL POR LA CIUDAD DE BUENOS AIRES, PRESIDENTE DE LA COMISIÓN BICAMERAL DEL DEFENSOR DE LOS DERECHOS DE LOS NIÑOS, NIÑAS Y ADOLESCENTES". Fundación DPT (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Las diputadas Carrizo y una grieta en la madrugada por el aborto legal". Clarín (in Spanish). 14 June 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Elecciones: difunden boletas que serán utilizadas en la Capital en las primarias". Centro de Información Judicial (in Spanish). 18 July 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Terragno y Lousteau presentaron la lista "Suma +" ante la Junta Electoral de Unen". Télam (in Spanish). 22 June 2013. Archived from the original on 27 June 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  7. ^ "PRO encabeza la elección a diputados y senadores en Capital Federal". Télam (in Spanish). 27 October 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Resultados de las elecciones 2017, provincia por provincia". Clarín (in Spanish). 23 October 2017. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  9. ^ "Cómo quedará conformado el Congreso a partir del 10 de diciembre". Primera Fuente (in Spanish). 30 October 2017. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  10. ^ "Carla Carrizo: "Es un día histórico, no me gusta cuando dicen que es inoportuno"". Télam (in Spanish). 11 December 2020. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  11. ^ "Diputados radicales ratificaron a Mario Negri como presidente del bloque". Télam (in Spanish). 27 November 2019. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
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