Carla Carrizo | |
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| National Deputy | |
| Assumed office 10 December 2013 | |
| Constituency | City of Buenos Aires |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1966-08-06)6 August 1966 (age 59) Quilino,Córdoba Province, Argentina |
| Political party | Radical Civic Union |
| Other political affiliations | Broad Front UNEN(2013–2015) Evolución(2017–2019) Juntos por el Cambio(2019–present) |
| Alma mater | University of Buenos Aires |
| Profession | Political scientist |
Ana Carla Carrizo (born 6 August 1966) is anArgentine political scientist and politician, currently serving asNational Deputy elected in theCity of Buenos Aires since 2013. She is a member of theRadical Civic Union (UCR).
Carrizo was director of the Political Science department at theUniversidad del Salvador and is a lecturer at theUniversity of Buenos Aires.
Carrizo was born on 6 August 1966 in Quilino, a small town in theIschilín Department ofCórdoba Province. Her father, Raúl Carrizo, was twice member of theArgentine Chamber of Deputies for the UCR. When she was fifteen, she moved toGermany to finish high school. She later returned to Argentina and studied Political Science at theUniversidad del Salvador.[1]
Carrizo has taught at theArgentine Catholic University, theTorcuato di Tella University and theUniversity of Buenos Aires, where she presently dictates courses on Political Sociology and Political Theory at theFaculty of Social Sciences.[2] Carrizo was also director of the Political Science department at the Universidad del Salvador and served in the directive board of the Political Science department of the University of Buenos Aires.[3]
Carrizo's first cousin,Soledad Carrizo, was mayor of Quilino and currently serves as a national deputy representingCórdoba Province; both were elected in2013.[4]
Carrizo became an affiliatedUCR member in 1985. She ran for a seat in theChamber of Deputies in the2013 legislative election, as the fourth candidate in theUNEN – Suma+ list inBuenos Aires.[5][6] The list came second in theP.A.S.O. primaries on 11 August 2013, and Carrizo was later the fourth candidate in the definitive UNEN list, which came second in the legislative election on 27 October 2013, with 27.66% of the vote.[7] Carrizo was elected, and took office on 10 December 2013.
Carrizo was re-elected in the2017 legislative election, this time as part of theEvolución coalition; she was the second candidate in the Evolución list, behindMartín Lousteau. The list was the third-most voted with 12.33% of the vote; only Lousteau and Carrizo were elected.[8][9]
As a national deputy, Carrizo was a vocal supporter of thelegalization of abortion in Argentina. She voted in favor of the twoVoluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bills that were debated by the Argentine Congress in 2018 and 2020.[4][10]
Following the2019 general election, Carrizo, alongside her Evoluciónparliamentary bloc members Martín Lousteau and Teresita Villavicencio all joined the UCR bloc; since then, she has been vice-president of the UCR bloc in the Chamber of Deputies.[11]