Eduardo de Pedro | |
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| National Senator | |
| Assumed office 10 December 2023 | |
| Constituency | Buenos Aires |
| Minister of the Interior | |
| In office 10 December 2019 – 10 December 2023 | |
| President | Alberto Fernández |
| Preceded by | Rogelio Frigerio |
| Succeeded by | Guillermo Francos |
| Councillor of Magistracy | |
| In office 21 November 2018 – 10 December 2019 | |
| Appointed by | Chamber of Deputies |
| In office 4 February 2014 – 26 February 2015 | |
| Appointed by | Chamber of Deputies |
| National Deputy | |
| In office 10 December 2015 – 10 December 2019 | |
| Constituency | Buenos Aires |
| In office 10 December 2011 – 26 February 2015 | |
| Constituency | Buenos Aires |
| General Secretary of the Presidency | |
| In office 26 February 2015 – 10 December 2015 | |
| President | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| Preceded by | Aníbal Fernández |
| Succeeded by | Fernando de Andreis |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1976-11-11)11 November 1976 (age 48) Mercedes,Buenos Aires Province, Argentina |
| Political party | Justicialist Party |
| Other political affiliations | Front for Victory(2003–2017) Citizen's Unity(2017–2019) Frente de Todos(2019–2023) Unión por la Patria(2023–present) |
| Alma mater | University of Buenos Aires University of San Andrés |
Eduardo Enrique "Wado"[1]de Pedro (born 11 November 1976) is an Argentine lawyer andJusticialist Party politician who has served asNational Senator since 2023. He previously served as the country'sMinister of the Interior from 2019 to 2023,National Deputy forBuenos Aires Province, as member of theCouncil of Magistracy, andGeneral Secretary toPresidentCristina Fernández de Kirchner.
De Pedro was one of the founding members ofLa Cámpora, theFront for Victory's youth wing. He served as Vice-president ofAerolíneas Argentinas andAustral Líneas Aéreas from 2009 to 2011.
Eduardo Enrique de Pedro was born on 11 November 1976 inMercedes, inBuenos Aires Province. His father, Eduardo Osvaldo de Pedro (b. 1950), a law student at theUniversity of Buenos Aires and a member of the organizationMontoneros, was killed by thelast military dictatorship in Argentina in 1977.[2] His mother, Lucila Adela Révora (b. 1953) was kidnapped by state authorities in 1978 while pregnant. Her name is mentioned in theNunca Más report. The two-year-old Eduardo Enrique was thereafter raised by his aunt Estela Révora.[1][3][4]
De Pedro has had astutter since childhood.[5] Like his father, de Pedro studied law at the University of Buenos Aires, and then went on to receive a Master's Degree in public policy at theUniversity of San Andrés. He is a founding member ofHIJOS.[6][7][8]
De Pedro's political career began in 2004 when he was designated Chief of Cabinet of the Undersecretariat of Tourism ofBuenos Aires City, during the administration ofAníbal Ibarra.[9] In 2006, alongsideMáximo Kirchner,Andrés Larroque,Juan Cabandié,Mariano Recalde and José Ottavis, de Pedro co-foundedLa Cámpora, a youth political organization that acted as the youth wing of theFront for Victory.[10] In 2009, he was appointed to the board of the recently re-nationalizedAerolíneas Argentinas andAustral Líneas Aéreas.[11][12]
In2011 he was elected to theChamber of Deputies on the Front for Victory list, representingBuenos Aires Province. Representing the majority bloc in the Chamber, de Pedro was designated as member of theCouncil of Magistracy of the Nation in February 2014.[13][14]
On 26 February 2015 he was designated asGeneral Secretary of thePresidency under PresidentCristina Fernández de Kirchner, a post he held until 10 December 2015, when Fernández de Kirchner's term ended.[15] De Pedro headed the Front for Victory's deputies party list in Buenos Aires Province in the2015 legislative election, and in 2018 he was again designated as one of the Chamber's representatives to the Council of Magistracy, this time representing the minority bloc.[16][17]
From 10 December 2019 until 10 December 2023, he served in the cabinet of PresidentAlberto Fernández asMinister of the Interior.[9]
| Election | Office | List | # | District | Votes | Result | Ref. | |||
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| Total | % | P. | ||||||||
| 2011 | National Deputy | Front for Victory | 6 | Buenos Aires Province | 4,639,554 | 57.10% | 1st[a] | Elected | [18] | |
| 2015 | Front for Victory | 1 | Buenos Aires Province | 3,354,619 | 37.28% | 1st[a] | Elected | [19] | ||
| 2023 | National Senator | Union for the Homeland | 1 | Buenos Aires Province | 4,135,519 | 44.01% | 1st[a] | Elected | ||
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| Preceded by | General Secretary of the Presidency February 2015–December 2015 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister of the Interior 2019–2023 | Succeeded by |
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