Carlos Iafigliola | |
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Personal details | |
Born | Carlos Alberto Iafigliola Pimentel 1 February 1963 Montevideo, Uruguay |
Political party | National |
Alma mater | Catholic University of Uruguay |
Carlos Alberto Iafigliola Pimentel (born 1 February 1963) is a Uruguayan politician and activist who served as a member of the Montevideo Legislature from 2005 to 2015, and as a deputy National Representative from 2015 to 2020. A member of the National Party (PN), he was a candidate in the 2024 presidential primaries for president of Uruguay in the 2024 general election. [1]
Iafigliola was born into a working-class family on 1 February 1963, in the Buceo neighbourhood of Montevideo. [2] He studied engineering at the University of the Republic and was part of the university union as a member of a Christian student association. [3] He ultimately did not graduate, instead he obtained a degree in marketing from the Catholic University of Uruguay. [4]
In 2003, he founded the Christian Social Current (List 252) as a sector of the National Party. [5]
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