Eduardo de Pedro
Argentine lawyer and politician
Eduardo de Pedro
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Minister of the Interior | |
Assumed office
10 December 2019 |
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President | Alberto Fernández |
Preceded by | Rogelio Frigerio |
Councillor of Magistracy | |
In office
21 November 2018 – 10 December 2019 |
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Appointed by | Chamber of Deputies |
In office
4 February 2014 – 26 February 2015 |
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Appointed by | Chamber of Deputies |
National Deputy | |
In office
10 December 2015 – 10 December 2019 |
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Constituency | Buenos Aires |
In office
10 December 2011 – 26 February 2015 |
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Constituency | Buenos Aires |
General Secretary of the Presidency | |
In office
26 February 2015 – 10 December 2015 |
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President | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
Preceded by | Aníbal Fernández |
Succeeded by | Fernando de Andreis |
Personal details | |
Born |
(
1976-11-11
)
11 November 1976
(age
46)
Mercedes , Buenos Aires Province , Argentina |
Political party | Justicialist Party |
Other political
affiliations |
Front for Victory
(2003–2017)
Citizen's Unity (2017–2019) Frente de Todos (2019–present) |
Alma mater |
University of Buenos Aires
University of San Andrés |
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Eduardo Enrique " Wado " [1] de Pedro (born 11 November 1976) is an Argentine lawyer and Justicialist Party politician currently serving as the country's Minister of the Interior . He previously served as National Deputy for Buenos Aires Province , as member of the Council of Magistracy , and General Secretary to President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner .
De Pedro was one of the founding members of La Cámpora , the Front for Victory 's youth wing. He served as Vice-president of Aerolíneas Argentinas and Austral Líneas Aéreas from 2009 to 2011.
Early life and education
Eduardo Enrique de Pedro was born on 11 November 1976 in Mercedes , in Buenos Aires Province . His father, Eduardo Osvaldo de Pedro (b. 1950), a law student at the University of Buenos Aires and a member of the organization Montoneros , was killed by the last military dictatorship in Argentina in 1977. [2] His mother, Lucila Adela Révora (b. 1953) was kidnapped by state authorities in 1978 while pregnant. Her name is mentioned in the Nunca Más report. The two-year-old Eduardo Enrique was thereafter raised by his aunt Estela Révora. [1] [3] [4]
De Pedro has had a stutter since childhood. [5] Like his father, de Pedro studied law at the University of Buenos Aires, and then went on to receive a Master's Degree on public policy at the University of San Andrés . He is a founding member of HIJOS . [6] [7] [8]
Political career
De Pedro's political career began in 2004 when he was designated Chief of Cabinet of the Undersecretariat of Tourism of Buenos Aires City , during the administration of Aníbal Ibarra . [9] In 2006, alongside Máximo Kirchner , Andrés Larroque , Juan Cabandié , Mariano Recalde and José Ottavis, de Pedro co-founded La Cámpora , a youth political organization that acted as the youth wing of the Front for Victory . [10] In 2009, he was appointed to the board of the recently re-nationalized Aerolíneas Argentinas and Austral Líneas Aéreas . [11] [12]
In 2011 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies on the Front for Victory list, representing Buenos Aires Province . Representing the majority bloc in the Chamber, de Pedro was designated as member of the Council of Magistracy of the Nation in February 2014. [13] [14]
On 26 February 2015 he was designated as General Secretary of the Presidency under President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner , a post he held until 10 December 2015, when Fernández de Kirchner's term ended. [15] De Pedro headed the Front for Victory's deputies party list in Buenos Aires Province in the 2015 legislative election , and in 2018 he was again designated as one of the Chamber's representatives to the Council of Magistracy, this time representing the minority bloc. [16] [17]
Since 10 December 2019, he has served in the cabinet of President Alberto Fernández as Minister of the Interior . [9]
Electoral history
Election | Office | List | # | District | Votes | Result | Ref . | |||
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Total | % | P . | ||||||||
2011 | National Deputy | Front for Victory | 6 | Buenos Aires Province | 4,592,054 | 57.10% | 1st [lower-alpha 1] | Elected | [18] | |
2015 | Front for Victory | 1 | Buenos Aires Province | 3,354,619 | 37.28% | 1st [lower-alpha 1] | Elected | [19] | ||
- 1 2 Presented on an electoral list . The data shown represents the share of the vote the entire party/alliance received in that constituency.
References
- 1 2 "La dramática historia que une a "Wado" De Pedro y "Juani" Ustarroz" . Perfil (in Spanish). 14 July 2011 . Retrieved 4 January 2020 .
- ↑ "DE PEDRO, Enrique Osvaldo" . robertobaschetti.com (in Spanish). 26 February 2015 . Retrieved 4 January 2020 .
- ↑ "Causa 19.580, punto V- a. Hecho ocurrido en la calle Belén № 335, dpto. "2" de Capital Federal, el 11 de octubre de 1978" . Desaparecidos.org (in Spanish) . Retrieved 4 January 2020 .
- ↑ "RÉVORA LUCILA ADELA" (PDF) . Registro unificado de víctimas del terrorismo de Estado - Listado L-Z . Secretaría de Derechos Humanos de la Nación. 8 December 2015. p. 1025.
- ↑ " "Wado" De Pedro, el líder de La Cámpora que construyó su propio poder bajo el paraguas de Cristina Kirchner" . Infobae (in Spanish). 6 December 2019 . Retrieved 12 September 2020 .
- ↑ "Los hijos que llegaron a ser candidatos" . Página/12 (in Spanish). 11 September 2011 . Retrieved 26 March 2011 .
- ↑ "¿Quién es "Wado" De Pedro, el nuevo secretario general de la Presidencia?" . TN.com.ar (in Spanish). 26 February 2015 . Retrieved 4 January 2020 .
- ↑ "El mercedino "Wado" de Pedro en los medios nacionales mencionado como nueva estrella política" . hoymercedes.com.ar (in Spanish). 21 December 2010 . Retrieved 4 January 2020 .
- 1 2 Pepe, Gabriela (4 November 2019). "Hablen con Wado" . Letra P (in Spanish) . Retrieved 4 January 2020 .
- ↑ "Quién es Wado De Pedro, el camporista que gana poder en el Gobierno" . El Cronista (in Spanish). 26 February 2015 . Retrieved 4 January 2020 .
- ↑ "El mercedino Eduardo De Pedro se suma al directorio de Aerolíneas Argentinas - Austral" . Noticias Mercedinas (in Spanish). 21 July 2009 . Retrieved 13 September 2013 .
- ↑ Bruschtein, Julián (27 February 2015). "Desde HIJOS a la Casa Rosada" . Página/12 (in Spanish) . Retrieved 4 January 2020 .
- ↑ Rodríguez Niell, Paz (5 February 2014). "La Cámpora gana espacio en el Consejo de la Magistratura" . La Nación (in Spanish) . Retrieved 4 January 2020 .
- ↑ "De Pedro: "El objetivo es generar discusión dentro del partido y formar cuadros" " . Télam (in Spanish). 9 May 2014.
- ↑ "Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro, referente nacional de La Cámpora, será el nuevo secretario general de la Presidencia" . Télam (in Spanish). 26 February 2015 . Retrieved 4 January 2020 .
- ↑ "Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro encabezará la lista de diputados nacionales del FpV en la provincia de Buenos Aires" . La Nación . 20 June 2015 . Retrieved 4 January 2020 .
- ↑ "Consejo de la Magistratura: piden anular la designación de Wado de Pedro" . Perfil (in Spanish). 20 November 2018 . Retrieved 4 January 2020 .
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