Cristina Fiore | |
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| Provincial Deputy of Salta | |
| Assumed office 10 December 2019 | |
| Constituency | Capital Department |
| In office 10 December 1995 – 10 December 1999 | |
| Constituency | Capital Department |
| National Senator | |
| In office 10 December 2013 – 10 December 2019 | |
| Constituency | Salta |
| National Deputy | |
| In office 10 December 2011 – 10 December 2013 | |
| Constituency | Salta |
| Personal details | |
| Born | María Cristina del Valle Fiore Viñuales (1974-02-16)16 February 1974 (age 51) Salta, Argentina |
| Political party | Salta Renewal Party |
| Other political affiliations | Front for Victory(2003–2015) |
| Alma mater | Catholic University of Salta |
María Cristina del Valle Fiore Viñuales (born 16 February 1974), better known asCristina Fiore, is anArgentine politician, currently serving as a member of theChamber of Deputies ofSalta Province. She previously served as aNational Senator (2013–2019) and aNational Deputy (2011–2013) for Salta. Fiore is the leader of the provincialSalta Renewal Party.
Fiore Viñuales was born on 16 February 1974 inSalta.[1] She finished high school at the Colegio de Jesús de Salta, a privateCatholic school, and then went on to study law at theCatholic University of Salta (UCASAL). She completed her law degree in 2000.[2]
In 1995, aged 21, she was elected to the provincialChamber of Deputies of Salta on theSalta Renewal Party list. In 2001, she was elected to the City Council of Salta, achieving re-election in 2005 and 2009. In 2010, she was appointed Secretary of Citizen Protection in the Salta municipal government by then-mayor Miguel Isa.[3] In 2011, she ran for a seat in theNational Chamber of Deputies on theFront for Victory (FPV) list as the second candidate, behindPablo Kosiner. The FPV list received 56.51% of the vote, enough for Fiore to be elected.[4]
Two years after being elected as deputy, Fiore was the second FPV candidate to theNational Senate in Salta in the2013 legislative election, behindJuan Manuel Urtubey. The FPV list was the most voted in the province, with 29.36% of the vote, and the FPV took the two seats for the majority.[5] She originally formed part of the Front for Victorybloc, later joining most other Justicialist Party senators in breaking away and forming theFederal bloc, led byJuan Carlos Romero, following the2017 legislative election.[6]
In 2016, she was elected president of the Salta Renewal Party.[7]
As senator, Fiore voted against of theVoluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bill, which would havelegalised abortion in Argentina, but was struck down by the Senate on 8 August 2018.[8] Fiore was one of the initiative's most vocal opponents, calling abortion "in all instances [...] a tragedy".[9]
Following the end of her term as senator, Fiore ran for a second term in the provincial Chamber of Deputies of Salta as part of theFrente Olmedo Gobernador, which backed the unsuccessful gubernatorial candidacy ofAlfredo Olmedo. She was the first candidate in the list in theCapital Department, which received 12.44% of the vote – enough for her to be elected.[10]
