Anabel Fernández Sagasti (born 3 April 1984) is an

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politician, currently serving as a National Senator for

Mendoza Province Mendoza, officially Province of Mendoza, is a province of Argentina, in the western central part of the country in the Cuyo region. It borders San Juan to the north, La Pampa and Neuquén to the south, San Luis to the east, and the republic o ...

since 2015. She previously served as a National Deputy from 2011 to 2015, elected in Mendoza as well. Fernández Sagasti has been the president of the Mendoza chapter of the

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since 2020.

Early life and education

Anabel Fernández Sagasti was born on 3 April 1984 in Godoy Cruz,

. Her father, Roberto Fernández, was a

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trade union leader. She studied law at the

National University of Cuyo The National University of Cuyo ( es, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, UNCuyo) is the largest center of higher education in the province of Mendoza, Argentina. As of 2005, the university had 12 academic schools in the city of Mendoza and a delegat ...

and graduated in 2011, and also counts with an auctioneer title authorized by the Supreme Court of Mendoza.

Political career

Fernández Sagasti's political activism began in

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; she was one of the group's founding members in Mendoza. At the 2011 legislative elections, Fernández Sagasti was the second candidate in the

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(FPV) list to the

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in Mendoza, and was comfortably elected as the list received 46.76% of the vote; elected at 27, she became one of the youngest legislators in the lower chamber of Congress at the time. As a national deputy, Fernández Sagasti introduced legislation to extend

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in cases of

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. From 10 March to 10 December 2015, she was one of the Chamber of Deputies' representatives in the Council of Magistracy. Fernández Sagasti was the first FPV candidate to the

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in Mendoza for the 2015 legislative election. Although the FPV list was not the most voted in the province, Fernández Sagasti was still elected in the minority seat and was sworn in as National Senator on 10 December 2015. As senator, Fernández Sagasti voted in favour of the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bill, which would have legalised abortion in Argentina, but was struck down by her fellow senators on 8 August 2018. Fernández Sagasti explained her position stating that "maternity cannot be the one, mandatory destiny or women.

Gubernatorial run

Fernández Sagasti ran for

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. She won the 9 June

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within the Justicialist Front with 17.40% of the vote against Alejandro Bermejo; Fernández Sagasti represented the more

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wing of the Justicialist Party, while Bermejo was the more "traditional" peronist candidate. She faced off UCR candidate and City of Mendoza mayor

Rodolfo Suárez Rodolfo Alejandro Suarez (born 20 April 1963) is an Argentine Radical Civic Union politician who is currently serving as governor of Mendoza Province, since 10 December 2019. Previously, from 2014 to 2019, he was ''intendente'' (mayor) of the ...

on 29 September 2019, but lost with 36.24% against Suárez's 51.67%.

President of the Mendoza PJ

In November 2020, Fernández Sagasti was elected to preside the Mendoza provincial chapter of the

. Her list ran unopposed. She was sworn in on 19 December 2020, succeeding

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and becoming the first woman to lead the Mendoza PJ.

Personal life

She was in a ten-year relationship with Lucas Ilardo, a fellow member of

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fernández Sagasti, Anabel 1984 births Living people People from Mendoza Province Members of the Argentine Senate for Mendoza Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Mendoza Members of the Argentine Council of Magistracy Women members of the Argentine Senate Women members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies Justicialist Party politicians Members of La Cámpora 21st-century Argentine politicians 21st-century Argentine women politicians National University of Cuyo alumni