Eduardo "Bali" Bucca (born 23 June 1979) is an Argentine physician and politician of the Justicialist Party. He served as a National Deputy from 2017 to 2021, elected in Buenos Aires Province, and as intendente (mayor) of Bolívar, Buenos Aires from 2011 to 2017. Since 2021, he has been a member of the Buenos Aires Province Senate elected in the Seventh Electoral Section.
Eduardo Bucca | |
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| Provincial Senator of Buenos Aires | |
| Assumed office 10 December 2021 | |
| Constituency | Seventh Electoral Section |
| National Deputy | |
| In office 10 December 2017 – 10 December 2021 | |
| Constituency | Buenos Aires |
| Mayor of Bolívar | |
| In office 10 December 2011 – 10 December 2017 | |
| Preceded by | José Gabriel Erreca |
| Succeeded by | Marcos Pisano |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 June 1979 San Carlos de Bolívar, Argentina |
| Political party | Justicialist Party |
| Other political affiliations | Front for Victory (2011–2017) Cumplir Justicialist Front (2017) Federal Consensus (2019–2021) Frente de Todos (2021–present) |
| Profession | Physician, politician |
At the 2019 provincial elections, Bucca ran for the governorship of Buenos Aires in the Federal Consensus ticket, winding up in third place with 5.11% of the vote.
Early and personal life
editBucca was born on 23 June 1979 in San Carlos de Bolívar, Buenos Aires Province. He went to school at Colegio Cervantes and finished high school at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires; he would later go on to attain a degree in medicine from Fundación Barceló, in 2002.[1]
Bucca is married and has three children. He is a close friend of TV presenter and businessman Marcelo Tinelli, a fellow native of San Carlos de Bolívar.[2]
Political career
editBucca successfully ran for a seat in the San Carlos de Bolívar city council in 2009. In 2011, he was elected intendente (mayor) of the city with 48% of the votes, and in 2015 he was re-elected with 54% of the votes.[1]
At the 2019 provincial elections, Bucca ran for the governorship of Buenos Aires as part of Federal Consensus, a coalition of dissident Peronists who did not join the Frente de Todos, as well as other smaller parties.[3] Bucca ended up in third place with 5.11% of the vote.[4]
National Deputy
editBucca ran for a seat in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies at the 2017 legislative election as the first candidate in the Cumplir Justicialist Front list;[2] the list received 5.20% of the vote, and Bucca was the only candidate in the list to be elected.
From 2019 to 2021, Bucca was president of the Federal Consensus parliamentary bloc in the Chamber of Deputies.[5] In August 2021, Bucca left the bloc and officially joined the governing Frente de Todos.[6]
He did not run for a second term as deputy in 2021, and his term expired on 9 December 2021.
Electoral history
editExecutive
edit| Election | Office | List | Votes | Result | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | % | P. | ||||||
| 2011 | Mayor of Bolívar | Front for Victory | 10,784 | 47.98% | 1st | Elected | [7] | |
| 2015 | Front for Victory | 12,453 | 54.60% | 1st | Elected | [8] | ||
| 2019 | Governor of Buenos Aires | Federal Commitment | 513,850 | 5.11% | 3rd | Not elected | [9] | |
Legislative
edit| Election | Office | List | # | District | Votes | Result | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | % | P. | ||||||||
| 2017 | National Deputy | Cumplir Justicialist Front | 1 | Buenos Aires Province | 485,138 | 5.20% | 5th[a] | Elected | [10] | |
| 2021 | Provincial Senator | Frente de Todos | 1 | Seventh Electoral Section | 62,559 | 33.73% | 2nd[a] | Elected | [11] | |
- ^ a b Presented on an electoral list. The data shown represents the share of the vote the entire party/alliance received in that constituency.
References
edit- ^ a b "Eduardo Bucca". HCDN (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 July 2021.
- ^ a b "PASO 2017: Eduardo "Bali" Bucca, el amigo de Tinelli que se metió en la lista de Randazzo". Todo Noticias (in Spanish). 24 June 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
- ^ Mugica Díaz, Joaquín (22 June 2019). "Eduardo 'Bali' Bucca será el candidato a gobernador bonaerense en la lista de Lavagna-Urtubey". Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 July 2021.
- ^ "Resultados de las elecciones en Buenos Aires 2019: Axel Kicillof supera el 50% de los votos y Vidal casi 39%". La Nación (in Spanish). 28 October 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
- ^ Angiono, Silvina (23 May 2020). "Bucca: "No hay posibilidad de desarrollo económico con argentinos enfermos"". Télam (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 July 2021.
- ^ "Eduardo Bucca selló su pase al Frente de Todos". Página/12 (in Spanish). 5 August 2021. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
- ^ "Escrutinio Definitivo" (PDF). juntaelectoral.gba.gov.ar (in Spanish). Junta Electoral de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
- ^ "Escrutinio Definitivo" (PDF). juntaelectoral.gba.gov.ar (in Spanish). Junta Electoral de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
- ^ "Escrutinio Definitivo" (PDF). juntaelectoral.gba.gov.ar (in Spanish). Junta Electoral de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
- ^ "Elecciones 2017". argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). Dirección Nacional Electoral. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
- ^ "Escrutinio Definitivo" (PDF). juntaelectoral.gba.gov.ar (in Spanish). Junta Electoral de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
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