Patricia Bullrich
Patricia Bullrich | |
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Minister of Security | |
In office 10 December 2015 – 10 December 2019 | |
President | Mauricio Macri |
Preceded by | María Cecilia Rodríguez |
Succeeded by | Sabina Frederic |
National Deputy | |
In office 10 December 2007 – 10 December 2015 | |
Constituency | City of Buenos Aires |
In office 10 December 1993 – 10 December 1997 | |
Constituency | City of Buenos Aires |
Minister of Social Security | |
In office 31 October 2001 – 15 November 2001 | |
President | Fernando de la Rúa |
Succeeded by | José Gabriel Dumón |
Minister of Labour, Employment and Human Resources | |
In office 6 October 2000 – 29 October 2001 | |
President | Fernando de la Rúa |
Preceded by | Alberto Flamarique |
Succeeded by | José Gabriel Dumón |
Personal details | |
Born | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 11 June 1956
Political party | Justicialist Party (1983–1996) New Leadership (1996–1999) Union for Freedom (2002–2018) Republican Proposal (since 2018) |
Other political affiliations | Alliance for Work, Justice and Education (1999–2001) Civic Coalition (2007–2011) PRO Union (2013–2015) Juntos por el Cambio (since 2015) |
Spouse(s) |
Marcelo Langieri
(m. 1975; div. 1982)Guillermo Yanco (m. 1997) |
Children | 1 |
Alma mater | University of Palermo |
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Patricia Bullrich (Latin American Spanish: [paˈtɾisja ˈβulritʃ] ; born 11 June 1956) is an Argentine professor and politician.
She was Minister of Security under Mauricio Macri and is the chairwoman of Republican Proposal.[1]
Born in Buenos Aires, Bullrich graduated from the University of Palermo, and as a young woman she was involved with the Peronist Youth. Following the election of Macri to the presidency in the 2015 Argentine general election, it was announced that Bullrich had been nominated the Minister of Security.[2]
Early life
Bullrich was born on 11 June 1956 in Buenos Aires, daughter of Alejandro Bullrich, a cardiologist, and Julieta Luro Pueyrredón. She was the youngest of four siblings until her parents' separation, following which her father had three more children.[3]
Bullrich belongs to two wealthy families on each of her parents' sides. On her mother's side, she belongs to the Pueyrredón family, a traditional lineage of Spanish, French, and Irish descent whose members featured prominently in the early years of Argentine Independence (such as Juan Martín de Pueyrredón and Honorio Pueyrredón).[4] On her father's side, she descends from Adolfo Bullrich, a businessman and politician of German ancestry who served as Mayor of Buenos Aires from 1898 to 1902.[5]
She became politically engaged from an early age; she abandoned a potential career in field hockey to dedicate herself fully to her political activism.[6] By the time she was 17, she was an active member of the Peronist Youth; she also worked at the Cheburger fast food joint and became a member of the food workers' union, and encouraged her coworkers to unionise as well.[3]
Peronist Youth years
She joined the Juventud Peronista, the youth wing of the Peronist movement, aged 17. On 20 June 1973 she joined the procession to Ezeiza to bear witness to Juan Perón's return to Argentina following his 18-year exile; she left before the Ezeiza Massacre took place that same day.[citation needed]
She was also present at the Plaza de Mayo on May Day 1974, when Perón, by then once again president of Argentina, expulsed the Montoneros and the left-wing youth groups from the celebrations. Bullrich herself was a member of the Montoneros, active in the Columna Norte subgroup commanded by Rodolfo Galimberti.[7] Galimberti was also in a relationship with Bullrich's sister, Julieta.[8] Bullrich has denied being a Montoneros member.[9][10]
Following Perón's death in 1974, a period of political violence and persecution against Montoneros and other left-wing peronists ensued. In 1975, Bullrich was arrested for spray-painting political messages on the entrance of the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. She spent six months in prison. Upon being released, she dropped out of her sociology degree at the University of Buenos Aires and enrolled at the Universidad de Belgrano to study law.[3]
Following the 1976 coup d'état, she went into exile with her partner at the time, Marcelo Langieri, first settling in Brazil, and later in Mexico and Spain.[11]
Political career
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After the return of democracy, she became Organisation Secretary of the Justicialist Party of Buenos Aires and was elected as a Peronist deputy in 1993.[12] In 1995, she was named the Legislator of the year.
Disillusioned with the Peronist cause, Bullrich left Congress in 1997 and set up the UPT, originally as a vehicle for studying and campaigning on the subject of crime and security.[13] From 1996 to 1999, she was a member of Gustavo Béliz's New Leadership party.[14] She worked for the state government in Buenos Aires Province on security matters, developing a community policing project in Hurlingham which became well known nationally and internationally.[12]
In 1999, the UPT became part of the Alliance for Work, Justice and Education which took Fernando de la Rúa to the Presidency and Bullrich was appointed to office in the Department of Criminal Policy and Penitentiary Matters. In 2001, she was made a cabinet minister, as Secretary of Labour, Employment and Human Resources, and later that year as Secretary of Social Security.[12] During the 2001 economic crisis, she led the plan to substantially reduce the pay of state employees and the level of state pensions.[citation needed]
Following the collapse of the Alliance government of De la Rúa, Bullrich and her colleagues formally launched UPT as a political party, on 6 March 2002.[13] The following year, the Party participated in the elections for Buenos Aires City, with Bullrich as the candidate for Head of Government for the Alianza Unión para Recrear Buenos Aires, working with the Recrear movement of Ricardo López Murphy. They came fourth with almost 10% of the vote.[citation needed]
In 2007, Bullrich led UPT into the Civic Coalition (2007–2011) alongside various opposition groups and social movements, principally ARI led by Elisa Carrió. The Coalition won several seats in the upper and lower houses of Congress and Bullrich herself was elected as National Deputy for Buenos Aires. Her centrist politics and polemical history as a government minister, however, contributed to the disenchantment of a group of left-wing members of ARI who left the Civic Coalition.[citation needed]
Following the election of Mauricio Macri to the presidency on 22 November 2015, it was announced on 25 November 2015 that Bullrich had been nominated the Minister of Security of the Nation.[2]
Controversies
Bullrich stated that she was favor of arming of citizens, stating "whoever wants to be armed should be armed" after exiting a restaurant. [15]
D'Alessio extortion scandal
According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), Bullrich was implicated in the D'Alessio scandal, in which Marcelo D'Alessio was accused of extorting various individuals using real evidence obtained through hidden cameras or otherwise obtained from their private lives, and/or planted evidence, in order to "force people to confess to crimes or implicate others." According to HRW, "intercepted communications suggest that Patricia Bullrich, the security minister, 'had links' and 'gave instructions' to D’Alessio."[16]
Electoral history
Election | Office | List | # | District | Votes | Result | Ref. | |||
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Total | % | P. | ||||||||
1993 | National Deputy | Justicialist Party | 3 | Buenos Aires | 628,506 | 32.59% | 1st[a] | Elected | [17] | |
2007 | Civic Coalition | 1 | Buenos Aires | 279,775 | 15.29% | 1st[a] | Elected | [18] |
- ^ a b Presented on an electoral list. The data shown represents the share of the vote the entire party/alliance received in that constituency.
References
- ^ "Patricia Bullrich es formalmente la presidenta del Pro". Cba24n (in Spanish). 6 February 2020.
- ^ a b "Marcos Peña anunció los ministros que integrarán el Gabinete de Macri". Telam. Télam SE Agencia Nacional de Noticias. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
- ^ a b c Bullrich, Patricia. Lazos de familia. El horizonte de la mirada política. Memorias de la acción. Conversaciones con Albino Gómez (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Asociación Civil Centro de Estudios Sociales Ahora Argentina. p. 23. ISBN 987-20654-0-3.
- ^ Rouillon, Jorge (2 October 2000). "Los Pueyrredon preparan un encuentro de 18.000 parientes". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 May 2023.
- ^ Schurman, Diego (22 October 2000). ""Nunca hice conspiración porque siempre crecí sola"". Página 12 (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 May 2023.
- ^ "Los rugidos de Patricia Bullrich". Clarín (in Spanish). 24 July 2003. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
- ^ Duzdevich, Aldo A. (13 September 2020). "Patricia, la montonera". Perfil (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 May 2023.
- ^ Amato, Alberto (13 February 2002). "Murió Rodolfo Galimberti, un símbolo de los violentos años 70" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 22 November 2004.
- ^ "Patricia Bullrich contó cuál fue su relación con Montoneros". La Nación (in Spanish). 7 April 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
- ^ "Patricia Bullrich hizo autocrítica por su militancia en la JP y afirmó: "Los Montoneros mataron al Padre Mugica"". Infobae (in Spanish). 4 October 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
- ^ "Pebeta de tres apellidos". Clarín (in Spanish). 20 August 2000. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
- ^ a b c CV, Argentine Chamber of Deputies. Accessed 11 April 2009.
- ^ a b Nuestra historia, Unión por Todos. Accessed 11 April 2009.
- ^ "9 January 2002". Clarín (in Spanish). 9 January 2002. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
- ^ "El que quiera estar armado que ande armado". Pagina 12. Pagina 12. 3 November 2018. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
- ^ "Argentina: Inquiry Threatens Judicial Independence". Human Rights Watch. 19 March 2019. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
- ^ "Elecciones 1993". argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). Dirección Nacional Electoral. 5 February 2019. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ^ "Elecciones 2007". argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). Dirección Nacional Electoral. 14 February 2019. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
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