Leonardo Grosso

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Leonardo Grosso
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National Deputy
In office
4 December 2011 –10 December 2023

Leonardo Grosso (born 1 April 1983) is an Argentine politician. Grosso is a member and one of the most prominent faces of the Evita Movement, a peronist political and social organization. He was a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for Buenos Aires Province for 12 years, from 2011 to 2023.

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Early life and education

Grosso was born on 1 April 1983 in San Martín, a city in the Greater Buenos Aires conurbation. [1] He started his political activism in the JP Evita, the Evita Movement's youth wing, in 2005. He is currently studying political science at the National University of General San Martín (UNSAM). [2]

Political career

Grosso in 2018, during the first debate on the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Bill Sesion 13-06-2018 Diputado Grosso.jpg
Grosso in 2018, during the first debate on the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Bill

Grosso was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2011 in the Front for Victory list in Buenos Aires Province, in which he was the 20th candidate. [3] He was elected and sat in the Front for Victory bloc, aligned with the government of then-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. [4] He was re-elected in 2015, this time placing 13th in the FPV list. [5]

Ahead of the 2017 legislative election, Grosso and the rest of the Evita Movement broke ranks with the FPV and instead backed the unsuccessful senatorial candidacy of former Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo; in the Chamber of Deputies, the Evita Movement formed the Peronism for Victory bloc, which later formed part of the Red por Argentina parliamentary group alongside, among others, deputies Felipe Solá and Victoria Donda. [6] [7]

Ahead of the 2019 general election, the Evita Movement joined the Frente de Todos (FDT) to back the presidential candidacy of Alberto Fernández; Grosso was 3rd in the FDT deputies list in Buenos Aires Province and was easily re-elected. [8]

In 2023, he announced his intention to run for the mayorship of General San Martín Partido. [9]

Personal life

In 2019 Grosso married his long-term partner, Guillermo Castro, becoming one of the few members of the Argentine National Congress to marry a same-sex partner under the 2010 same-sex marriage law, after Analuz Carol and Osvaldo López. [10] [11] Grosso has stated that he identifies as marica . [12]

Grosso is a vocal supporter of the legalization of abortion in Argentina, and voted in favor of the 2018 Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy Bill during its treatment by the Chamber of Deputies. [13]

Electoral history

Legislative

Electoral history of Leonardo Grosso
ElectionOfficeList#DistrictVotesResultRef.
Total %P.
2011 National Deputy Front for Victory 20 Buenos Aires Province 4,592,05457.10%1st [lower-alpha 1] Elected [14]
2015 Front for Victory 13 Buenos Aires Province 3,354,61937.28%1st [lower-alpha 1] Elected [15]
2019 Frente de Todos 3 Buenos Aires Province 5,113,35952.64%1st [lower-alpha 1] Elected [16]
2021Councillor Frente de Todos 2 General San Martín Partido 96,39439.47%1stElected [lower-alpha 2] [18]
  1. 1 2 3 Presented on an electoral list. The data shown represents the share of the vote the entire party/alliance received in that constituency.
  2. ↑ Never took office. [17]

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  5. ↑ "El FpV presentó la lista de diputados nacionales de la provincia, encabezada por Wado de Pedro". Télam (in Spanish). 24 June 2015. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
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