Emiliano Yacobitti

Emiliano Benjamín Yacobitti (born 15 December 1975) is an Argentine politician, currently serving as National Deputy elected in the City of Buenos Aires since 2019. He is a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), and served as the Buenos Aires City UCR Committee from 2013 to 2017.

Emiliano Yacobitti
National Deputy
Assumed office
10 December 2019
ConstituencyCity of Buenos Aires
Personal details
Born (1975-12-15) 15 December 1975
Lomas de Zamora, Argentina
Political partyRadical Civic Union
Other political
affiliations		Broad Front UNEN (2013–2015)
Evolución (2017–2019)
Juntos por el Cambio (2019–present)
Alma materUniversity of Buenos Aires

A public accountant, Yacobitti has an extensive career in academic politics in the University of Buenos Aires, and formerly served as Vice-Dean of the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Economic Sciences. Since 2022, he has been Vice Rector of the University of Buenos Aires.[1]

Early life and career

Yacobitti was born on 15 December 1975 in Lomas de Zamora, in the Greater Buenos Aires conurbation.[2] He attended the prestigious Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini, then going on to study public accountancy at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).[3] He is married to Clara Alconada Alfonsín and has three children.[2]

While studying at UBA, Yacobitti became involved with university politics. He was elected president of the Faculty of Economic Sciences student union, and later was elected president of the Argentine University Federation.[4] He is also a professor of Accounting Systems in the Faculty of Economic Sciences. In 2018, he was elected Vice-Dean of the Faculty.[5]

Political career

In 2013, Yacobitti was elected president of the Radical Civic Union Committee in Buenos Aires, for the 2013–2015 term.[6] He was re-elected for another two-year term in 2015.[7] Yacobitti was succeeded by Guillermo de Maya in 2017.[8]

During his tenure as leader of the Buenos Aires UCR, Yacobitti rejected an alliance with Republican Proposal and the Civic Coalition ARI, breaking with the national UCR, which had formed part of the Cambiemos alliance in 2015.[9][10] Instead, the Buenos Aires UCR formed the ECO coalition in 2015, which, alongside the Socialist Party, supported the candidacy of Martín Lousteau for Chief of Government of Buenos Aires in 2015.[11] In 2017, ECO was dissolved and replaced by Evolución, which supported Lousteau's bid to become National Deputy in 2017.[12]

Yacobitti ran for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies in the 2019 legislative election; he was the third candidate in the Juntos por el Cambio list in Buenos Aires.[13] The list was the most voted, with 52.86% of the votes, and Yacobitti was elected.[14]

As a national deputy, Yacobitti formed part of the parliamentary commissions on Justice, Tributary Norm Analysis, Science and Technology, Economy, Education, and General Legislation.[15] He was a supporter of the legalization of abortion in Argentina, voting in favour of the 2020 Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bill that passed the Argentine Congress.[16]

References
  1. "Emiliano Yacobitti fue elegido como vicerrector de la UBA". Ámbito Financiero (in Spanish). 2 August 2022. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  2. "Emiliano Benjamín Yacobitti". Directorio Legislativo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 4 August 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  3. "Habemus rector en el Pelle". Página/12 (in Spanish). 14 July 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  4. "Peleas entre alumnos de Ciencias Ecconómicas". La Nación (in Spanish). 7 September 1999. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  5. Palese, Gonzalo (26 July 2019). ""El votante radical entiende que para estar mejor no hay que volver al pasado"". Letra P (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  6. "EMILIANO YACOBITTI FUE ELECTO COMO PRESIDENTE DE LA UCR PORTEÑA". Juventud Informada (in Spanish). 18 December 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  7. "Yacobitti y Macchi integran la fórmula para conducir el radicalismo porteño". Télam (in Spanish). 3 December 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  8. "Guillermo de Maya asumió al frente de la UCR porteña y prometió "fortalecer" al radicalismo". Télam (in Spanish). 21 December 2017. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  9. "La Cantera se quedó con la UCR porteña y rechazó acuerdos con Macri". La Política Online (in Spanish). 21 March 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  10. Palese, Gonzalo (30 November 2017). "Con el Coti, no". Letra P (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  11. "Lousteau divide al radicalismo porteño". El Economista (in Spanish). 19 April 2017. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  12. "Martín Lousteau y el Socialismo porteño inscribieron al Frente Evolución Ciudadana para competir las PASO". Télam (in Spanish). 14 June 2017. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  13. "Juntos por el Cambio completó lista de candidatos con varias sorpresas". Ámbito (in Spanish). 23 June 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  14. "Uno por uno: ¿Quiénes entran al Congreso de la Nación y quiénes perdieron la banca?". iProfesional (in Spanish). 28 October 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  15. "Emiliano Yacobitti | Comisiones". HCDN (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  16. "Aborto Legal: Qué dijeron los diputados que participaron del histórico debate". Perfil (in Spanish). 10 December 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
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