Federico Fagioli

Federico Fagioli
Provincial Senator of Buenos Aires
Incumbent
Assumed office
10 December 2023
ConstituencyThird Electoral Section
National Deputy
In office
10 December 2019 – 10 December 2023
ConstituencyBuenos Aires
Personal details
Born (1991-03-27) 27 March 1991 (age 33)
Quilmes, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Political partyPatria Grande Front
Other political
affiliations		Frente de Todos (2019–2023)
Union for the Homeland (2023–present)

Federico Fagioli (born 27 March 1991) is an Argentine social activist and politician of the Patria Grande Front. Since 2023, he has been a member of the Senate of Buenos Aires Province, representing the Third Electoral Section. From 2019 to 2023, he was a National Deputy for Buenos Aires.

Additionally, Fagioli is also involved in the CTEP-UTEP, the informal sector workers' union.

Early and personal life

Fagioli was born on 27 March 1991 in Quilmes,[1] in the Greater Buenos Aires conurbation. His mother is a schoolteacher, and he has two siblings. When he was little, his family moved to Cipolletti, Río Negro, where they lived until Fagioli's father left the family. They moved back to the Greater Buenos Aires area when Fagioli was 16 years old.[2] After a brief attempt at studying psychology, in 2009 Fagioli became involved with the Movimiento Popular La Dignidad. His activism was centered on informal sector workers' rights.[3]

Fagioli presently resides in Pueblo Unido, in Glew. Pueblo Unido is a settlement founded by land occupations in which Fagioli partook, alongside some 120 other families.[4] He is irreligious.[3]

Political activism

Fagioli co-founded, alongside other villero activists, the Corriente Villera Independiente (CVI). The CVI seeks to push for the urbanization of villas (informal settlements) in the City of Buenos Aires, and in 2014, Fagioli participated in one of the CVI's most important political internvetions: setting up a large tent by the Obelisk of Buenos Aires while staging a protest demanding the declaration of an habitational emergency.[5]

Fagioli participated in the making of a National Survey on Popular Neighbourhoods (Relevamiento Nacional de Barrios Populares, RENABAP).[6] Additionally, he has been active in the CTEP-UTEP, the informal sector workers' union, founded by Juan Grabois.[7]

In 2016, Fagioli co-founded alongside other members of the Movimiento Popular La Dignidad the People's Left Party (Izquierda Popular); the party's purpoted goal was to "build a new political project that takes up on the people's historical programmes, in order to attain true independence". In 2018, People's Left joined other left-wing political groups and parties in forming the Patria Grande Front.[2]

National Deputy

Fagioli alongside other Patria Grande Front leaders.

Ahead of the 2019 general election, the Patria Grande Front selected Fagioli to be their candidate in the Frente de Todos list to the Chamber of Deputies in Buenos Aires Province; Fagioli was the 21st candidate.[8] Despite not being elected, Fagioli took office on 19 December 2019 in place of Eduardo de Pedro, who resigned in order to become Interior Minister in President Alberto Fernández's cabinet.[9]

Incident in Bolivia

Fagioli was part of the Argentine delegation invited by the Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia to observe the general election held that country in October 2020. Upon the delegation's arrival in La Paz Airport, however, Fagioli was controversially detained and kept in custody of the authorities.[10] The Bolivian Minister of the Interior, Arturo Morillo, stated that Fagioli had been warned not to return to Bolivia after his participation in a previous Argentine delegation that visited the country following the ousting of Evo Morales in 2019, and that Fagioli was a "persona non grata" in Bolivia.[11] In addition to Fagioli's detention, other members of the Argentine delegation, including other lawmakers, were also allegedly mistreated by Bolivian security forces. The incident was harshly criticized by President Alberto Fernández and MAS candidate Luis Arce, as well as the Juntos por el Cambio-led Argentine opposition in Congress.[12][13][14]

Electoral history

Electoral history of Federico Fagioli
Election Office List # District Votes Result Ref.
Total % P.
2019 National Deputy Frente de Todos 21 Buenos Aires Province 5,113,359 52.64% 1st[a] Not elected[b] [15]
2023 Provincial Senator Union for the Homeland 5 Third Electoral Section 1,770,941 51.54% 1st[a] Elected [16]
  1. ^ a b Presented on an electoral list. The data shown represents the share of the vote the entire party/alliance received in that constituency.
  2. ^ Assumed office on 19 December 2019 following the resignation of Eduardo de Pedro.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Federico Fagioli". HCDN (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  2. ^ a b Tedesco, Mateo (10 June 2019). "Jóvenes en la política: historias de militantes que quieren cambiar al país". Punto Convergente (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  3. ^ a b Bertolotta, Leandro (23 October 2019). "A jurar en jogging". Revista Crisis (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  4. ^ Vales, Laura (4 September 2020). "Federico Fagioli, el diputado que vive en un barrio que nació con una toma". Página/12 (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Acampe y ayuno por la vivienda". Página/12 (in Spanish). 22 April 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Federico Fagioli: "Los que vivimos en los barrios no urbanizados, tenemos la vida precarizada"" (in Spanish). 17 July 2019. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  7. ^ Russo Coroman, Matías (6 September 2020). "El diputado del Frente de Todos que vive en un terreno tomado: "Era esto o quedarme en la calle"" (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  8. ^ Santucho, Mario (9 July 2019). "La lapicera y las pasiones tristes". Revista Crisis (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  9. ^ a b "Quiénes son los 23 diputados que asumieron antes de la sesión por Emergencia". Perfil (in Spanish). 19 December 2019. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  10. ^ "El Gobierno denunció que un diputado argentino fue retenido ilegalmente en Bolivia". Télam (in Spanish). 17 October 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  11. ^ Molina, Fernando (17 October 2020). "El Gobierno de Bolivia retiene en el aeropuerto de La Paz a un diputado argentino". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  12. ^ "Presidente de Argentina denuncia maltratos a delegación de observadores de elecciones en Bolivia". CNN en Español (in Spanish). 17 October 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  13. ^ "El candidato del MAS condenó el "maltrato" al diputado argentino retenido". Télam (in Spanish). 17 October 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  14. ^ "Juntos por el Cambio se solidarizó con el diputado kirchnerista Federico Fagioli, a quien retuvieron en el aeropuerto de Bolivia". Clarín (in Spanish). 18 October 2020. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  15. ^ "Elecciones 2019". argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). Dirección Nacional Electoral. Retrieved 4 February 2023.[permanent dead link‍]
  16. ^ "Elecciones 2023" (PDF). juntaelectoral.gba.gov.ar (in Spanish). Junta Electoral de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
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