Early life and career
Torello was born on 12 February 1959 in Buenos Aires. [1] He is a grand-nephew of Pablo Miguel Torello (1864–1943),who was Minister of Public Works during the presidency of Hipólito Yrigoyen. [2] His brother,JoséTorello,is also a Republican Proposal politician and currently serves as a Senator for Buenos Aires. [3] Torello is married to María Patricia Medina. [1]
From 2008 to 2009 he led the Bragado chapter of the Sociedad Rural Argentina (SRA),and served in the SRA directive board from 2003 to 2013. [4]
Political career
Torello was a member of the City Council of Bragado from 2013 to 2015. [1] He ran for a seat in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in the 2015 general election;he was the 12th candidate in the Republican Proposal list in Buenos Aires Province. The list received 33.75% of the votes,and Torello was elected. [5] He was re-elected in 2019,this time as the 13th candidate in the Juntos por el Cambio list. [6]
As a national deputy,Torello formed part of the parliamentary commissions on Agriculture and Livestock,Consumer Rights,Communications,Economy,Industry,and Budgets. [7] He was a vocal opponent of the legalization of abortion in Argentina,voting against the two Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bills that were debated by the Argentine Congress in 2018 and 2020. [8] In 2020,before the second bill passed the Argentine Congress,Torello threatened to denounce the bill for unconstitutionality should it become law. [9]
In 2019,he caused controversy when,on his official Twitter account,he replied affirmatively to a tweet stating that "feminist women are unfuckable". [10] [11]
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