Graciela "Chaco" Navarro (born 26 December 1958) is an Argentine politician. She served as National Deputy elected in Santiago del Estero from 2011 to 2023. A member of the Civic Front for Santiago (FCpS), she has sat in the Frente de Todos parliamentary bloc from 2019 to 2023.
Graciela Navarro | |
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 Navarro in 2019. | |
| National Deputy | |
| In office 10 December 2011 – 10 December 2023 | |
| Constituency | Santiago del Estero |
| Provincial Deputy of Santiago del Estero | |
| In office 10 December 2009 – 10 December 2011 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 December 1958 Monte Quemado, Argentina |
| Political party | Radical Civic Union (until 2005) Civic Front for Santiago (since 2005) |
| Other political affiliations | Frente de Todos (since 2019) |
Early life and career
editNavarro was born on 26 December 1958 in Monte Quemado, a city in Northern Santiago del Estero Province. Her political career began in the Radical Civic Union (UCR): she served as a member of the party's Santiago del Estero Provincial Committee from 2011 to 2005, and as secretary of the committee from 1997 to 2011.[1]
Navarro's first political post was as a member of the city council of Santiago del Estero, in 2001. She was re-elected for a second two-year term in 2003. In 2009, she was elected to the provincial Chamber of Deputies.[1]
Congresswoman
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In the 2011 election to the National Chamber of Deputies, Navarro was the first alternate candidate in the Civic Front for Santiago list, which received 71.03% of the vote and elected all four seats up for grabs. Jorge Raúl Pérez, the third candidate in the list, died shortly before the new Congress was due to take office, on 11 November 2011.[2] As alternate candidate, Navarro took office in his stead.[3]
In the 2015 election, Navarro ran for re-election as the third candidate in the Civic Front list. The FCpS received 65.67% of the vote, and Navarro was elected.[4] She was re-elected for a third term in 2019 as the second candidate in the FCpS list, which received 56.66% of the vote.[1] Following the 2019 election, Navarro and the other FCpS deputies formed part of the Frente de Todos parliamentary bloc in the Chamber.[5]
During her 2019–2023 term, Navarro formed part of the parliamentary commissions on Culture, Budget and Finances, Economy, Population and Human Development, and Sports.[1] She was an opponent of the legalisation of abortion in Argentina, voting against the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bills debated by the Argentine Congress in 2018 and 2020, the latter of which eventually passed and went on to legalise abortion in 2021.[6][7]
Personal life
editNavarro suffered from throat cancer and underwent surgery in 2017 after it metastasised to her brain.[8] In 2018, during a visit to General Roca, Río Negro for a mass in honour of Ceferino Namuncurá, Navarro suffered a stroke and fell into a brief coma.[9] In 2020, she contracted COVID-19, but recovered satisfactorily.[10][11]
Navarro is Roman Catholic, and a devotee of Ceferino Namuncurá.[11] She is married to Jaime Sesse.[12]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Graciela Navarro". Directorio Legislativo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 13 December 2021.
- ^ Rodríguez, Leonel (11 November 2011). "Murió un diputado de Santiago del Estero". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "Muere el diputado santiagueño Jorge Raúl Pérez". El Diario 24 (in Spanish). 11 November 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "Diputados: el FPV perdió bancas, pero sigue siendo el bloque más numeroso". Minuto1 (in Spanish). 26 October 2015. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "Cristina logra encumbrar en el Senado a la esposa de Zamora". Diario de Cuyo (in Spanish). 27 November 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "Graciela Navarro: "Esta ley no es un derecho"". Vía País (in Spanish). 13 June 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "Aborto: Cómo votarán los diputados santiagueños". El Liberal (in Spanish). 10 December 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "La diputada de Santiago del Estero Graciela Navarro está internada en grave estado". Infobae (in Spanish). 28 August 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "Mejora el estado de salud de la diputada santiagueña Graciela Navarro". Infobae (in Spanish). 30 August 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "La diputada santiagueña Graciela Navarro tiene coronavirus". Río Negro (in Spanish). 11 October 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ a b "La diputada "Chaco" Navarro evoluciona favorablemente: "Ya no tengo fiebre"". Nuevo Diario Web (in Spanish). 12 October 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "La diputada "Chaco" Navarro permanece en coma inducido". El Liberal (in Spanish). 29 August 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
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