Fernando Iglesias | |
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| National Deputy | |
| Assumed office 10 December 2017 | |
| Constituency | City of Buenos Aires |
| In office 10 December 2007 – 10 December 2011 | |
| Constituency | City of Buenos Aires |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1957-05-14)14 May 1957 (age 68) |
| Political party | Civic Coalition ARI(2007–2011) Republican Proposal(2011–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Civic Coalition(2007–2011) Juntos por el Cambio2015–present) |
| Alma mater | National University of Lomas de Zamora Università di Bologna |
| Profession | Politician and writer |
Fernando Adolfo Iglesias (born 14 May 1957 inBuenos Aires) is an Argentine journalist, writer, politician, and volleyball player. Currently he is aNational Deputy elected inBuenos Aires. He is a member of thecenter right partyRepublican Proposal.
Iglesias has been called "the most anti-Peronist deputy ofJuntos por el Cambio". He took out several books and compared theJusticialist Party with the "Middle Ages." He analyzes the "eternal-return" ofPeronism to power, from arepublican and anti-populist perspective.[1]
In 1970, Fernando Iglesias joined the TrotskyistWorker's Socialist Party (Spanish: Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores,abbrev. PST), where he sawJuan Carlos Coral andNora Ciapponi run for president in the1973 elections.[2] He would later leave the PST and join the Front of Workers for Human Rights (Spanish: Frente de Trabajadores por los Derechos Humanos) to devote himself tohuman rights advocacy.[2]
He attended the School of Competitive Sports (Spanish: Licenciado en Alto Rendimiento Deportivo) at theNational University of Lomas de Zamora, where he trained to become a volleyball player.[3] He moved to Italy post-graduation to play volleyball and resided there for several years. Iglesias returned to Argentina in the mid-1990s and started to work as a truck driver and teach languages andtango. In the meantime, he studied journalism at theTaller Escuela Agencia [es], where he became interested in globalization.[4] He had written as a columnist for various Argentine newspapers includingLa Nación,Clarín, and the magazineNoticias. He had also served as a freelance Buenos Aires correspondent for several European media outlets.
He later became a professor at theUniversity of Business and Social Sciences, where he taught the Theory ofGlobalization andTrade Blocs (Spanish: Teoría de la Globalización y Bloques Regionales). He also taught at the Chair of International Governance (Spanish: la cátedra de Gobernabilidad Internacional del Doctorado de Sociología) at theUniversity of Belgrano.
From October 2007 to December 2011, Iglesias served as aNational Deputy for the centristCivic Coalition ARI party.[5] A critic of Argentina's media laws, Iglesias joined theFreedom of Expression Committee. He argued that previous reforms made to the media laws were far from sufficient and that the parliamentary debate was excessively short.[6] In 2011, he pushed for a bill that would lead to the nationwide implementation of single ballot voting, which proponents say would prevent ballot theft.[7] He sponsored several bills that would see the creation a national registry of missing individuals, a plan to democratize the trade unions, a plan to oversee social work, and modifications to the civil code on issues like gender-motivated violence and religious liberty.[8]
In 2017, a lawyer close to then-presidentMauricio Macri invited Iglesias to join Macri'sCambiemos coalition.[9] Macri highly appreciated Iglesias' passionate speeches in television debates and encouraged him to run for the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of theArgentine Congress.[3] Later that year, Iglesias ran for National Deputy under thePRO ticket and won with over 50% of the votes.[10] He then joined the Commission of Provision and Social Security (Spanish: Comisión de Previsión y Seguridad Social).
Iglesias is a firm critic of former Argentine presidentsNéstor Kirchner and his wifeCristina Fernández de Kirchner. He opposed theUNASUR's decision to appoint Néstor Kirchner as its general secretary and accused Cristina Kirchner of leading a government composed of "mafiosi and hooligans" (Spanish: mafias y patotas).[11][12]
The writer and deputy ofJuntos por el Cambio has just released a new book, "ThePeronistMiddle Ages and the Arrival of the Plague", in which he seeks to disprove the "Peronist version" of history and explain its "eternal return." He analyzes the defeat ofCambiemos and affirms that the mistake "was to give up the cultural battle".[13]
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