Carolina Yutrovic | |
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| National Deputy | |
| Assumed office 19 December 2019 | |
| Constituency | Tierra del Fuego |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1964-09-12)12 September 1964 (age 61) Salta, Argentina |
| Political party | Patagonian Social Party |
| Other political affiliations | Unidad Ciudadana(2017–2019) Frente de Todos(2019–present) |
Inés Carolina Yutrovic (born 12 September 1964) is anArgentine politician, currently serving asNational Deputy elected inTierra del Fuego. A member of the localistPatagonian Social Party (PSP), Yutrovic first ran for a seat in2017, but only took office upon the resignation of Martín Pérez in 2019. She currently sits in theFrente de Todosbloc.
Yutrovic was born on 12 September 1964 inSalta. She is married to Jorge Edmundo González Echazu and has four children.[1]
Yutrovic served in a number of positions in the provincial government of Tierra del Fuego during the administration ofFabiana Ríos, the founder and leader of the Patagonian Social Party. Yutrovic was an undersecretary at the Ministry of Labour from 2009 to 2011, and was appointed Minister of Labour in 2012. Later on, she was Minister of Industry and Productive Innovation from 2012 to 2015. Following the end of Ríos's governorship in 2015, Yutrovic was Undersecretary of Planning Administration and Public Investment in the municipal government ofUshuaia, from 2016 to 2019.[1]
Yutrovic ran for one of theTierra del Fuego seats in theArgentine Chamber of Deputies in the2017 legislative election; she was the second candidate in the Civic and Social Front – a coalition of the PSP, theVictory Party,FORJA, theHumanist Party andNew Encounter – behind Martín Pérez.[2] The list was the most voted with 29.99% of the vote, but it was not enough for Yutrovic to make it past theD'Hondt cut.[3]
In 2019, Pérez was electedintendente (mayor) ofRío Grande; Yutrovic then took office in Pérez's stead for the remainder of the four-year term. She was sworn in on 19 December 2019.[4] She became part of the newly establishedFrente de Todos bloc.[5] Yutrovic became the first (and, to date, the only) member of the PSP to be elected to Congress.[6] As deputy, she was a supporter of the 2020Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bill, whichlegalized abortion in Argentina.[7]
Ahead of the2021 primary elections, Yutrovic was confirmed as the first candidate in the Frente de Todos list in Tierra del Fuego.[8][9]
