Carmen Amorim Uribelarrea de Polledo (born 14 November 1952) better known as Carmen Polledo, is an Argentine politician who served as a National Deputy elected in the

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from 2017 to 2021. She is a member of

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(PRO), and sits in the

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inter-bloc. She previously served as a member of the Buenos Aires City Legislature from 2009 to 2017.

Early life and career

Carmen Amorim Uribelarrea was born on 14 November 1952 in

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, to a family descended from the Anchorenas, an old aristocratic family of Buenos Aires. In 1989 she became involved with Cooperadora de Acción Social (COAS), an

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focused on social assistance in public hospitals of Buenos Aires; she served as the organization president from 1999 to 2009. She is married to Fernando Polledo and has three children.

Political career

Polledo began her political career in

. In 2009, she ran for a seat in the Buenos Aires City Legislature, as the fifth candidate in the Unión PRO list. The list received 31.30% of the vote, and Polledo was elected. As legislator, Polledo was elected First Vice President of the Legislature, becoming the first woman to hold the position. She was re-elected in

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as the third candidate in the PRO list. The list received 33.58% of the vote. She ran for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies in the 2017 legislative election, as the second candidate in the

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(Cambiemos) list, behind

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. The list was the most voted in the general election with 50.98% of the vote, and Polledo was elected. As a national deputy, Polledo formed part of the parliamentary commissions on Social Action and Public Health (which she presided), Commerce, Consumer Rights, Political Trials, Petitions, Powers and Norms, Budget, and Foreign Affairs. She was an opponent of the

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in Argentina. She voted against the two Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bills that were debated by the Argentine Congress in 2018 and 2020. During the 2020 debate, she was the spokesperson for the commission's dissent position. In 2016, she was named in the Panama Papers as the owner of an offshore firm.

References

External links

Profile on the official website of the Chamber of Deputies
(in Spanish) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Polledo, Carmen Living people 1952 births Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Buenos Aires Women members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies Members of the Buenos Aires City Legislature Politicians from Buenos Aires Republican Proposal politicians 21st-century Argentine politicians 21st-century Argentine women politicians