Emiliano Yacobitti | |
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| National Deputy | |
| In office 10 December 2019 – 10 December 2023 | |
| Constituency | City of Buenos Aires |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1975-12-15)15 December 1975 (age 49) Lomas de Zamora, 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 |
Emiliano Benjamín Yacobitti (born 15 December 1975) is anArgentine politician. He is a member of theRadical Civic Union (UCR), and served as the Buenos Aires City UCR Committee from 2013 to 2017. From 2019 to 2023, he was aNational Deputy elected in theCity of Buenos Aires.
A public accountant, Yacobitti has an extensive career in academic politics in theUniversity of Buenos Aires, and formerly served as Vice-Dean of the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Economic Sciences. Since 2022, he has been ViceRector of the University of Buenos Aires.[1]
Yacobitti was born on 15 December 1975 inLomas de Zamora, in theGreater Buenos Aires conurbation.[2] He attended the prestigiousEscuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini, then going on to study public accountancy at theUniversity of Buenos Aires (UBA).[3] He is married to Clara Alconada Alfonsín and has three children.[2]
While studying at UBA, Yacobitti became involved with university politics. He was elected president of the Faculty of Economic Sciences student union, and later was elected president of theArgentine University Federation.[4] He is also a professor of Accounting Systems in the Faculty of Economic Sciences. In 2018, he was elected Vice-Dean of the Faculty.[5]
In 2013, Yacobitti was elected president of the Radical Civic Union Committee in Buenos Aires, for the 2013–2015 term.[6] He was re-elected for another two-year term in 2015.[7] Yacobitti was succeeded by Guillermo de Maya in 2017.[8]
During his tenure as leader of the Buenos Aires UCR, Yacobitti rejected an alliance withRepublican Proposal and theCivic Coalition ARI, breaking with the national UCR, which had formed part of theCambiemos alliance in 2015.[9][10] Instead, the Buenos Aires UCR formed the ECO coalition in 2015, which, alongside theSocialist Party, supported the candidacy ofMartín Lousteau forChief of Government of Buenos Aires in 2015.[11] In 2017, ECO was dissolved and replaced byEvolución, which supported Lousteau's bid to becomeNational Deputy in2017.[12]
Yacobitti ran for a seat in theChamber of Deputies in the2019 legislative election; he was the third candidate in theJuntos por el Cambio list in Buenos Aires.[13] The list was the most voted, with 52.86% of the votes, and Yacobitti was elected.[14]
As a national deputy, Yacobitti formed part of the parliamentary commissions on Justice, Tributary Norm Analysis, Science and Technology, Economy, Education, and General Legislation.[15] He was a supporter of thelegalization of abortion in Argentina, voting in favour of the 2020Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bill that passed the Argentine Congress.[16]
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| 2019 | National Deputy | Juntos por el Cambio | 3 | City of Buenos Aires | 1,060,404 | 53.02% | 1st[a] | Elected | [17] | |
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