María Cecilia Bottino Fiuri (born 19 October 1968) is a
Uruguay
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an lawyer and politician of the
Movement of Popular Participation –
Broad Front.
Since February 15, 2015 she serves as
Representative
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for
Paysandú Department. Between 2019 and 2020 she served as
President of the Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay.
Graduated from the
University of the Republic
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as a Doctor in Law and Social Sciences in 1993, she has been fully dedicated to politics since 2010.
Biography
Early life
She was born in the City of
Paysandú and completed her primary studies at the "Padre Lamas" School. She attended Liceo No. 1 and No. 2 of her hometown.
Political activity
Her beginnings in political militancy were in 1983, in the
Broad Front as an independent militant. In 2005 she entered the
MPP, in which she still continues.
During the 47th Legislature of the Chamber of Deputies (2010-2015) she was a substitute for the Representative for Paysandú Gustavo Rombys. Subsequently, in the national elections that were held in October 2014, Bottino led the list of Space 609 in Paysandú and was elected national representative by this department, being one of the 14 women who make up the
Chamber of Representatives.
In the
2019 general election, Bottino was re-elected National Representative for the new legislature (2020-2025).
References
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Living people
1968 births
Presidents of the Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay
Uruguayan feminists
Broad Front (Uruguay) politicians
Movement of Popular Participation politicians
Uruguayan women lawyers
People from Paysandú
Members of the Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay
20th-century Uruguayan lawyers
Uruguayan people of Italian descent
20th-century women lawyers