Eduardo Bucca | |
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| Provincial Senator of Buenos Aires | |
| Assumed office 10 December 2021 | |
| Constituency | Seventh Electoral Section |
| National Deputy | |
| In office 10 December 2017 – 10 December 2021 | |
| Constituency | Buenos Aires |
| Mayor of Bolívar | |
| In office 10 December 2011 – 10 December 2017 | |
| Preceded by | José Gabriel Erreca |
| Succeeded by | Marcos Pisano |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1979-06-23)23 June 1979 (age 45) San Carlos de Bolívar, Argentina |
| Political party | Justicialist Party |
| Other political affiliations | Front for Victory (2011–2017) Cumplir Justicialist Front(2017) Federal Consensus(2019–2021) Frente de Todos(2021–present) |
| Profession | Physician, politician |
Eduardo "Bali" Bucca (born 23 June 1979) is anArgentine physician and politician of theJusticialist Party. He served as aNational Deputy from 2017 to 2021, elected inBuenos Aires Province, and asintendente (mayor) ofBolívar, Buenos Aires from 2011 to 2017. Since 2021, he has been a member of theBuenos Aires Province Senate elected in the Seventh Electoral Section.
At the2019 provincial elections, Bucca ran for thegovernorship of Buenos Aires in theFederal Consensus ticket, winding up in third place with 5.11% of the vote.
Bucca was born on 23 June 1979 inSan Carlos de Bolívar,Buenos Aires Province. He went to school at Colegio Cervantes and finished high school at theColegio Nacional de Buenos Aires; he would later go on to attain a degree in medicine from Fundación Barceló, in 2002.[1]
Bucca is married and has three children. He is a close friend of TV presenter and businessmanMarcelo Tinelli, a fellow native of San Carlos de Bolívar.[2]
Bucca successfully ran for a seat in the San Carlos de Bolívar city council in 2009. In 2011, he was electedintendente (mayor) of the city with 48% of the votes, and in 2015 he was re-elected with 54% of the votes.[1]
At the2019 provincial elections, Bucca ran for thegovernorship of Buenos Aires as part ofFederal Consensus, a coalition of dissidentPeronists who did not join theFrente de Todos, as well as other smaller parties.[3] Bucca ended up in third place with 5.11% of the vote.[4]
Bucca ran for a seat in theArgentine Chamber of Deputies at the2017 legislative election as the first candidate in theCumplir Justicialist Front list;[2] the list received 5.20% of the vote, and Bucca was the only candidate in the list to be elected.
From 2019 to 2021, Bucca was president of theFederal Consensusparliamentary bloc in the Chamber of Deputies.[5] In August 2021, Bucca left the bloc and officially joined the governing Frente de Todos.[6]
He did not run for a second term as deputy in2021, and his term expired on 9 December 2021.
| Election | Office | List | Votes | Result | Ref. | |||
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| Total | % | P. | ||||||
| 2011 | Mayor of Bolívar | Front for Victory | 10,784 | 47.98% | 1st | Elected | [7] | |
| 2015 | Front for Victory | 12,453 | 54.60% | 1st | Elected | [8] | ||
| 2019 | Governor of Buenos Aires | Federal Commitment | 513,850 | 5.11% | 3rd | Not elected | [9] | |
| Election | Office | List | # | District | Votes | Result | Ref. | |||
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| Total | % | P. | ||||||||
| 2017 | National Deputy | Cumplir Justicialist Front [es] | 1 | Buenos Aires Province | 485,138 | 5.20% | 5th[a] | Elected | [10] | |
| 2021 | Provincial Senator | Frente de Todos | 1 | Seventh Electoral Section | 62,559 | 33.73% | 2nd[a] | Elected | [11] | |
