Antonieta Mónica Xavier Yelpo ( Montevideo, 16 December 1956) is a Uruguayan politician and medical doctor with a postgraduate degree in cardiology. She was the President of the leftist coalition Frente Amplio between 2012 and 2015 and is a serving in the Senate of Uruguay. Xavier was born into a family with socialist roots. She completed all her studies in public education. In 1975, she became a student in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of the Republic, and graduated in 1985.

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