Mercedes Lourdes Frias | |
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| Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office April 21, 2006 [1] –April 28, 2008 [1] | |
| Parliamentary group | Communist Refoundation Party |
| Constituency | XII District,Tuscany |
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| Born | October 28,1962 Santo Domingo |
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Mercedes Lourdes Frias is an Italian-Dominican politician. She was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 2006,serving until 2008. She was the first Black woman to be a member of the Italian parliament.
Frias was born on October 28,1962 [1] in Santo Domingo,Dominican Republic. [2] [3] She attended the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, [4] where she obtained a degree in geography. [2] She worked as a community activist,focusing particularly on issues affecting women and immigrants from Haiti. [4]
In 1990,Frias moved to Prato. [2] There she continued her activist work,eventually becoming an organizer with Italy's Federation of Protestant Churches. [4] She became an Italian citizen in 2004. [2]
Frias was appointed assessor of the city government of Empoli in 2004. [5] In this capacity she was responsible for a portfolio that included the environment,citizenship rights,equal opportunities,and cultural diversity in Empoli. [5]
Frias ran in the 2006 Italian general election for the Chamber of Deputies,affiliated with the Communist Refoundation Party. [1] She was elected in the April 2006 election, [5] to represent the XII District,which is a part of Tuscany. [1] Her election made her the first Black woman to be a member of the Italian parliament. [6] [3] She was also a member of a historically large cohort of Protestants elected to parliament that year. [7] As a deputy she served on the parliamentary committees responsible for constitutional affairs,Schengen implementation,and immigration issues. [1]
For the 2008 Italian general election Frias joined the list La Sinistra l'Arcobaleno (the rainbow left), [8] but she was not re-elected to the parliament. [1]
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