María José Bongiorno is an

Argentine Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...

Frente Grande The Broad Front ( es, Frente Grande, FG) is a centre-left peronist political party in Argentina most prominent in the 1990s. The party is currently part of the ruling Frente de Todos coalition supporting the 2019 Argentine presidential candida ...

politician. She sat in the

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representing

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in the majority block of the

Front for Victory The Front for Victory ( es, Frente para la Victoria, FPV) was a centre-left Peronist electoral alliance in Argentina, and is formally a faction of the Justicialist Party. Former presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner wer ...

from 2007 to 2013. Bongiorno, a lawyer, is active in the

, previously part of the

FrePaSo The Front for a Country in Solidarity ( or ) was a center-left political coalition in Argentina. It was formed in 1994 out of the Broad Front (''Frente Grande''), which had been founded mainly by progressive members of the Peronist Justicialist ...

alliance and now part of the ruling Front for Victory of President

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alongside most members of the

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. She led the Frente Grande block on the city council of

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where she was a councillor from 2003.Bongiorno: "Nosotros por convicción, otros por conveniencia"
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'', 20 October 2007.

External links

Senate profile

References

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