Elisa Carrió
Elisa Carrió | |
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National Deputy | |
In office 10 December 2009 – 1 March 2020 | |
Constituency | City of Buenos Aires |
In office 10 December 2005 – 14 March 2007 | |
Constituency | City of Buenos Aires |
In office 10 December 1995 – 10 December 2003 | |
Constituency | Chaco |
Personal details | |
Born | Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina | 26 December 1956
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Alma mater | National University of the Northeast |
Profession | Lawyer |
Elisa María Avelina "Lilita" Carrió (born 26 December 1956) is an Argentine lawyer, professor, and politician. She is the leader of
Biography
Born in Resistencia, Chaco, in a traditional family, Carrió was a former teenage beauty queen.[4] Her father, Rolando "Coco" Carrió, was a prominent Radical Civic Union politician. Her mother, María "Lela" Elisa Rodríguez, was a literature professor. She enrolled at the National University of the Northeast and earned a law degree in 1978 and later earned a graduate degree in Public Law at the National University of the Littoral. Carrió entered public service as a technical advisor to the Chaco Province Prosecutor's Office in 1979,[5] and was appointed to the provincial Solicitor General's office in 1980.[6]
She later taught constitutional law at her alma mater, and from 1986 to 1988 served as director of the human rights department of the University of Buenos Aires Law School.[7] In 2004, she founded the Hannah Arendt Institute of Cultural and Political Education (Spanish: Hannah Arendt instituto de formación cultural y política), where she has taught ever since.[8]
Politics
Carrió entered politics at the request of her mentor,
She campaigned heavily for Fernando de la Rúa in 1999. Re-elected to Congress, Carrió earned growing publicity as the chair of the Congressional Committee on Corruption and Money Laundering after 1999, particularly during a series of exchanged accusations in 2001 between herself and Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo.[11]
After the rupture in 2000 of the
In the
Carrió ran again for the Presidency on the 2007 elections, representing a front called the Civic Coalition.[12] In March 2007 she resigned her seat in Congress to conduct the campaign.[13] Together with her running mate Rubén Giustiniani (chairman of the Socialist Party), Carrió obtained about 23% of the vote, coming in a distant second after first lady Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. She won a majority in two of the three largest cities of Argentina (Buenos Aires and Rosario), but she suffered a larger defeat in Buenos Aires Province, the most populous district. Ultimately, Carrió lost to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, and came up well short of forcing her into a ballotage.[14] In Argentina, a presidential candidate can win an outright victory by either winning at least 45 percent of the vote, or 40 to 44 percent of the vote while finishing at least 10 points ahead of the runner-up.
Following the 2007 election, Carrió announced she would not be running for the presidency again, declaring that she would instead enhance her role as "leader of the opposition" and seek to become a member of or influence in a future administration following the 2011 elections.
Carrió joined the
She voted against the
On 1 March 2020, she resigned as a national deputy.[21]
Personal life
Carrió always appears in public wearing a
Publications
- Vida (Life), 2019
- Yo amo la República (I love the Republic), 2015
- Humanismo y Libertad Tomo II (Humanism and Liberty Volume II), 2014
- Humanismo y Libertad Tomo I (Humanism and Liberty Volume I), 2013
- El futuro es hoy (The future is today), 2011
- La educación como política central del porvenir (Education as the central policy for the future), 2006
- La nueva matriz de saqueo (The new matrix of looting), 2006
- Búsquedas de sentido para una nueva política (Search for meaning for a new policy), 2005
- La concepción del poder desde las mujeres (The conception of women's power), 2005
- Hacia un nuevo contrato moral: discursos e intervenciones sobre la realidad nacional (Towards a new moral contract: discourse and interventions in national reality), 2004
See also
References
- ^ CC-ARI official party website Archived 2011-06-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Elisa Carrió's personal website Archived 2011-05-31 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ^ "ELECCIONES ARGENTINA 2007 | Especiales". El Mundo (in Spanish).
- ^ The Times, 8 July 2007: ‘Fatty’ vs. the new Evita in all-girlfight for Argentina
- ^ Terra: Nueva embestida de un ministro hacia Elisa Carrió (in Spanish)
- ^ Política y Medios: Dos años después se convirtió en secretaria de la Procuración del Superior Tribunal de Justicia de esa provincia (in Spanish)
- ^ Elisa Carrió: Trayectoria Archived 2011-06-29 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ^ "Historia del Instituto". institutoarendt (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ^ Diario de Cuyo: Carrió se defendió (in Spanish)
- ^ Elisa Carrió: Discurso en la sesión especial donde se rechazó el ingreso a la Cámara de Luis Patti Archived 2011-06-29 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ^ Parlamentario: Sigue el contrapunto Carrió-Cavallo (in Spanish)
- ^ Coalición Cívica Archived 2007-10-26 at the Wayback Machine (official website).
- ^ Clarín, 5 August 2006. El ARI ratificó a Elisa Carrió como candidata presidencial para el 2007 Archived 3 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Clarín, 29 October 2007. Cristina Kirchner conserva casi 22 puntos de diferencia sobre Carrió Archived 25 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ La Capital, 30 October 2007. Carrió mantendrá el liderazgo pero no volverá a pelear la Presidencia Archived 2007-11-01 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Con más críticas, Carrió se aleja del Acuerdo Cívico". La Nación.
- ^ de Prensa / Gacetillas Elisa Carrió: Se lanzó la candidatura de Carrió-Pérez Archived 2011-06-29 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ^ "Nothing has hurt UNEN more than Carrió". Buenos Aires Herald. 20 November 2014.
- ^ "Carrió is closer to PRO than to UNEN". Buenos Aires Herald. 20 November 2014.
- ^ "Elisa Carrió se fue enojada y advirtió: 'Que le quede claro a todo Cambiemos, la próxima rompo'". 13 June 2018.
- ^ "El adiós de Elisa Carrió tras 25 años como diputada: "Mil disculpas a los que me odian, era mi deber hacer lo que hice"". Clarín (in Spanish). 1 March 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ^ "Página/12 :: El país :: Lilita y la religión".
- ^ "Después del discurso de Mauricio Macri, Elisa Carrió volvió a expresarse contra el aborto: 'Respeten a los que somos creyentes'". March 2018.
- ^ "Oposición al aborto de los principales candidatos". 23 October 2007.
External links
- Official website (in Spanish)