Graciela Bianchi | |
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Senator of Uruguay | |
Assumed office 15 February 2020 | |
Representative of Uruguay for Montevideo | |
In office 15 February 2015 –15 February 2020 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Uruguay | November 14,1953
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Alma mater | University of the Republic |
Occupation | Professor, politician, lawyer, notary |
Graciela Elena Bianchi Poli (born 14 November 1953) is a Uruguayan lawyer, notary, teacher, and politician of the National Party. She currently serves as Senator of Uruguay in the 49th Legislature. She is known for her interventions in constant confrontation with the opposition and for posting fake news on social media. [1] [2]
Coming from a leftist family, her paternal and maternal grandparents emigrated to Uruguay escaping from Benito Mussolini's regime in Italy. [3] She studied teaching at the Instituto de Profesores Artigas . After 35 years in teaching, she is currently retired. [4] She was a secondary education director of the Liceo Bauzá for 18 years, secretary of Germán Araújo in the Senate, and secretary of the Central Directing Council (CODICEN). She worked until 2014 as a panelist on the daytime talk show Esta boca es mía broadcast on Teledoce. [5]
In 2013 she joined the National Party. [6] In the 2014 primaries, she endorsed Luis Lacalle Pou for president, being elected Senator and Deputy for Montevideo. In January 2015, she announced that she would not assume her seat in the Senate, opting to take on deputies, in accordance with the provisions of Article 101 of the Constitution of the Republic. [7]
In the 2019 general election, she was elected senator for the 49th Legislature. She assumed her seat on February 15, 2020, and since March of that year, she has been second in the presidential line of succession. [8]
Bianchi is married and the mother of two children, the elder a notary and the younger an architect. [9]
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