Juliana Di Tullio | |
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| National Senator | |
| Assumed office 19 August 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Jorge Taiana |
| Constituency | Buenos Aires |
| National Deputy | |
| In office 10 December 2005 – 10 December 2017 | |
| Constituency | Buenos Aires |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1971-10-22)22 October 1971 (age 54) Morón, Argentina |
| Political party | Justicialist Party |
| Other political affiliations | Front for Victory(2005–2017) Citizen's Unity(2017–2019) Frente de Todos(2019–present) |
| Alma mater | Escuela de Psicología Social Pichon Riviere |
Juliana Di Tullio (born 22 October 1971) is anArgentine social psychologist and politician. A member of theJusticialist Party, Di Tullio served three terms asNational Deputy representingBuenos Aires Province, from 2005 to 2017. From 2013 to 2015, during the presidency ofCristina Fernández de Kirchner, Di Tullio was president of theFront for Victory parliamentary bloc in the lower chamber of theNational Congress. She also served as a member of theMercosurParliament, and in the board of directors of theBanco Provincia.[1] Since 2021, she has been aNational Senator for Buenos Aires Province.
During her time in the lower chamber of Congress, Di Tullio was known for sponsoring a number of bills that expanded the rights of women and LGBT people in Argentina. She co-sponsored theGender Identity Law, theEqual Marriage Law, and an early bill that would havelegalized abortion.[2][3]
Juliana Di Tullio was born on 22 October 1971 inMorón, in theGreater Buenos Aires conurbation.[4] She is ofItalian descent. She became active in politics as aPeronist activist in high school, and studiedsocial psychology at the Escuela de Psicología Social Pichon Riviere. She met future presidentsNéstor Kirchner andCristina Fernández de Kirchner in the late 1990s, when Kirchner wasgovernor ofSanta Cruz Province and Fernández de Kirchner was a National Deputy.[5]
From 2003 to 2005, Di Tullio was the Argentineforeign ministry's ambassador for women's affairs.[6] At the2005 legislative election, Di Tullio ran for a seat in theArgentine Chamber of Deputies in the 8th place of theFront for Victory (FPV) list inBuenos Aires Province, and was elected.[7] She ran for re-election in2009, and although she was not elected, she assumed office upon the resignation ofNacha Guevara from the position.[8] In 2010, she became one of the most vocal supporters of the Equal Marriage bill, which was passed by the Chamber of Deputies on 5 May 2010 and, upon becoming law on 22 July 2010, legalizedsame-sex marriage in Argentina.[9]
She ran for a third term in2013, this time in the second spot in the FPV list, underMartín Insaurralde.[10] During her third term in the Chamber of Deputies, Di Tullio presided the FPVbloc, becoming the first woman to lead a parliamentary caucus in the history of the Argentine Congress.[4][11] She was also part of the Commerce, Human Rights, Women and Childhood, General Legislation and Foreign Affairs parliamentary commissions.[7]
From 2010 to 2011, she was a member of theParlasur, the legislative body ofMercosur.[12]
In 2011, Di Tullio introduced a bill that would expand the right to self-determination for transgender people; the bill was drafted with support from the Federación Argentina de Lesbianas, Gays, Bi y Transexuales (FALGBT).[13] Di Tullio's bill was introduced at the same time as two other similar bill projects were introduced in the Chamber, the other two byDiana Conti (with support from the Comunidad Homosexual Argentina) and by opposition deputies Silvana Giúdici and Miguel Ángel Barrios. The three bills were eventually reformulated into one, which was passed by the Chamber on 30 November 2011.[14]
In the2017 legislative election, Di Tullio was the first alternate candidate in theUnidad Ciudadana list to theArgentine Senate inBuenos Aires Province; the list was headed byCristina Fernández de Kirchner and seconded byJorge Taiana.[15] Unidad Ciudadana came second in the general election, with 37.31% of the vote. In the electoral system for the upper house, this meant that only Fernández de Kirchner was elected as the senator for the minority.[16] Taiana filled the vacancy left by Fernández de Kirchner being electedvice president in the2019 general election.[17] In 2021, Taiana was sworn in asDefense Minister, and Di Tullio was then tapped to take his seat in the senate for the remainder of the 2017–2023 term.[18] She was sworn in on 19 August 2021.[19]
| Election | Office | List | # | District | Votes | Result | Ref. | |||
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| Total | % | P. | ||||||||
| 2005 | National Deputy | Front for Victory | 8 | Buenos Aires Province | 2,831,777 | 43.04% | 1st[a] | Elected | [20] | |
| 2009 | Justicialist Front for Victory | 15 | Buenos Aires Province | 2,418,104 | 32.18% | 2nd[a] | Not elected[b] | [21] | ||
| 2013 | Front for Victory | 2 | Buenos Aires Province | 2,900,494 | 32.33% | 2nd[a] | Elected | [22] | ||
| 2017 | National Senator | Unidad Ciudadana | 1 alt. | Buenos Aires Province | 3,529,900 | 37.31% | 2nd[a] | Not elected[c] | [23] | |
| 2023 | Union for the Homeland | 2 | Buenos Aires Province | 4,135,519 | 44.01% | 1st[a] | Elected | |||
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