Federico Fagioli | |
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| Provincial Senator of Buenos Aires | |
| Assumed office 10 December 2023 | |
| Constituency | Third Electoral Section |
| National Deputy | |
| In office 10 December 2019 – 10 December 2023 | |
| Constituency | Buenos Aires |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1991-03-27)27 March 1991 (age 34) Quilmes,Buenos Aires Province, Argentina |
| Party | Patria Grande Front |
| Other political affiliations | Frente de Todos (2019–2023) Union for the Homeland (2023–present) |
Federico Fagioli (born 27 March 1991) is anArgentine social activist and politician of thePatria Grande Front. Since 2023, he has been a member of theSenate ofBuenos Aires Province, representing theThird Electoral Section. From 2019 to 2023, he was aNational Deputy for Buenos Aires.
Additionally, Fagioli is also involved in the CTEP-UTEP, theinformal sector workers'union.
Fagioli was born on 27 March 1991 inQuilmes,[1] in theGreater Buenos Aires conurbation. His mother is a schoolteacher, and he has two siblings. When he was little, his family moved toCipolletti,Río Negro, where they lived until Fagioli's father left the family. They moved back to the Greater Buenos Aires area when Fagioli was 16 years old.[2] After a brief attempt at studying psychology, in 2009 Fagioli became involved with the Movimiento Popular La Dignidad. His activism was centered oninformal sector workers' rights.[3]
Fagioli presently resides in Pueblo Unido, inGlew. Pueblo Unido is a settlement founded by land occupations in which Fagioli partook, alongside some 120 other families.[4] He is irreligious.[3]
Fagioli co-founded, alongside othervillero activists, the Corriente Villera Independiente (CVI). The CVI seeks to push for the urbanization ofvillas (informal settlements) in theCity of Buenos Aires, and in 2014, Fagioli participated in one of the CVI's most important political interventions: setting up a large tent by theObelisk of Buenos Aires while staging a protest demanding the declaration of an habitational emergency.[5]
Fagioli participated in the making of a National Survey on Popular Neighbourhoods (Relevamiento Nacional de Barrios Populares, RENABAP).[6] Additionally, he has been active in the CTEP-UTEP, theinformal sector workers'union, founded by Juan Grabois.[7]
In 2016, Fagioli co-founded alongside other members of the Movimiento Popular La Dignidad the People's Left Party (Izquierda Popular); the party's purported goal was to "build a new political project that takes up on the people's historical programmes, in order to attain true independence". In 2018, People's Left joined other left-wing political groups and parties in forming thePatria Grande Front.[2]
Ahead of the2019 general election, the Patria Grande Front selected Fagioli to be their candidate in theFrente de Todos list to theChamber of Deputies inBuenos Aires Province; Fagioli was the 21st candidate.[8] Despite not being elected, Fagioli took office on 19 December 2019 in place ofEduardo de Pedro, who resigned in order to becomeInterior Minister in PresidentAlberto Fernández's cabinet.[9]
Fagioli was part of the Argentine delegation invited by thePlurinational Legislative Assembly ofBolivia to observe thegeneral election held that country in October 2020. Upon the delegation's arrival inLa Paz Airport, however, Fagioli was controversially detained and kept in custody of the authorities.[10] The Bolivian Minister of the Interior, Arturo Morillo, stated that Fagioli had been warned not to return to Bolivia after his participation in a previous Argentine delegation that visited the country following the ousting of Evo Morales in 2019, and that Fagioli was a "persona non grata" in Bolivia.[11] In addition to Fagioli's detention, other members of the Argentine delegation, including other lawmakers, were also allegedly mistreated by Bolivian security forces. The incident was harshly criticized by President Alberto Fernández andMAS candidateLuis Arce, as well as theJuntos por el Cambio-led Argentine opposition in Congress.[12][13][14]
| Election | Office | List | # | District | Votes | Result | Ref. | |||
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| Total | % | P. | ||||||||
| 2019 | National Deputy | Frente de Todos | 21 | Buenos Aires Province | 5,113,359 | 52.64% | 1st[a] | Not elected[b] | [15] | |
| 2023 | Provincial Senator | Union for the Homeland | 5 | Third Electoral Section | 1,770,941 | 51.54% | 1st[a] | Elected | [16] | |
