Martín Berhongaray

Martín Berhongaray
National Deputy
Incumbent
Assumed office
10 December 2019
ConstituencyLa Pampa
Provincial Deputy of La Pampa
In office
10 December 2007 – 10 December 2019
Personal details
Born (1978-03-06) 6 March 1978 (age 46)
Santa Rosa, Argentina
Political partyRadical Civic Union
Other political
affiliations		Juntos por el Cambio (2015–present)
Alma materArgentine Catholic University

Martín Antonio Berhongaray (born 6 March 1978), is an Argentine politician, currently serving as National Deputy elected in La Pampa since 2019. He is a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR). Berhongaray previously served as a member of La Pampa's provincial legislature, and as president of the UCR Committee of Santa Rosa.

Early life and education

Berhongaray was born on 6 March 1978 in the capital of La Pampa Province, Santa Rosa.[1] His father was Antonio Berhongaray (1942–2017), a prominent Radical Civic Union politician who was a National Senator for La Pampa and served as Secretary of Agriculture during the presidency of Fernando de la Rúa.[2] His mother, Delia Braun de Berhongaray, was also active in politics and served in the Provincial Chamber of Deputies in 2003.[3]

Berhongaray studied law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina. He is married and has two children.[1]

Political career

Berhongaray was elected to the Provincial Chamber of Deputies in 2007,[4] and was re-elected in 2011 and 2015.[5][6] He was also president of the Radical Civic Union Committee of Santa Rosa.[1]

Berhongaray headed one of the UCR lists in the Cambiemos P.A.S.O. primaries ahead of the 2017 Chamber of Deputies election, but lost to the PRO list, headed by Martín Maquieyra.[7]

In the 2019 legislative election, Berhongaray ran in the Juntos por el Cambio list to the Chamber of Deputies in La Pampa as the first candidate.[8] The Juntos por el Cambio list was the second-most voted, with 39.42% of the vote, enough for just Berhongaray to be elected.[9]

As a national deputy, Berhongaray formed part of the parliamentary commissions on Natural Resources, Energy and Fuels, Elderly People, and Communications.[1] He was an opponent of the 2020 Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bill, which legalized abortion in Argentina.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Martín Antonio Berhongaray". Directorio Legislativo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2 September 2021. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Murió Antonio Berhongaray, histórico dirigente radical de La Pampa". Infobae (in Spanish). 23 February 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  3. ^ "Acta 208/2003" (PDF). Tribunal Electoral de la Provincia de La Pampa (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  4. ^ "Acta 309/2007" (PDF). Tribunal Electoral de la Provincia de La Pampa (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  5. ^ "Acta 336/2011" (PDF). Tribunal Electoral de la Provincia de La Pampa (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 November 2011. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  6. ^ "Acta 361/2015" (PDF). Tribunal Electoral de la Provincia de La Pampa (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  7. ^ "En La Pampa Mac Allister ganó la interna y sacó mas votos que Verna". La Política Online (in Spanish). 13 August 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  8. ^ "Candidatos 2019: todas las listas para las elecciones de octubre". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 September 2021.
  9. ^ "Berhongaray y Pérez Araujo serán diputados nacionales por La Pampa". Vía Santa Rosa (in Spanish). 27 October 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  10. ^ "Legalización del aborto: cómo votó cada diputado y cada bloque". Perfil (in Spanish). 11 December 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2021.